We were tired from the 18,000 steps at Zion and navigating the crowds, so we slept in. Or Jill did, I wish I did, but I did sleep OK. Up about 6:30. I worked on photos, jill wrote in our log, that is so much more as she processes a day. Fun to see things through her eyes. Then we watched Cedar Springs Church service as the options here seemed iffy at best. I cleaned up a bit of the car, Jill worked on some packing and then we went into town. Our plan included a few stops, a historic house, a visitor center museum and a coffee shop. After that the plans changed. We had been told a few times to go to the Best Friends Animal Society and take a tour. Well we did. Quite an amazing operation on 6500 acres of beautiful canyon land where the operate a no kill rescue facility that employs over 400 people with a budget in excess of 200 million dollars a year. Quite a free tour, beautiful scenery and a great story. They have dozens of buildings, a restaurant, lodging, RV park, cutting edge health care for all the animals and scores of volunteers. They influence shelters across the US with their ground-breaking policies and care. Not on our plan but a worthwhile 90 minutes. We returned to the house to complete packing and clean up, rode to a nice lake where we walked a bit and stopped in a grocery for a few things. Ate dinner with the leftovers from last night. Just one photo today, taken at the Animal Shelter’s porch.
Off in the AM for Cedar Breaks and Bryce Canyon and back to more hiking and photography. Thanks for peeking in and we are back on track for photos and parks tomorrow.
