Day 7......Canyon Land and Salt Lake City part 1

Alright, here is the deal. After hiking all day at Arches, I was a wreck. I was dehydrated, I was sun burned, and I was tired. This means I did not take any pictures and left it all to my brother....which means I can't put any of those pictures on here.

*insert sad crying*

Canyonland was an incredible place. I wish I had been feeling better so I could have appreciated it more. I had never seen a true canyon before this experience. The land stretched out for hundreds of miles, and then all of a sudden plummeted into empty space of more rock. The colors of the rock/soil shifted from red, to gray, to bright green and back. It was impossible to actually see the river that created these canyons, it was too far down in the rock.

One of the main things that stood out to be about this desert, both at Canyon Land and Arches, was the colors. The dominating color was red, but green came in second. Sometimes in was light green soil, and others it was deep green plants that spotted the scenery. These trees, or bushes, were the dark green of pine trees, and stood out remarkably against the red soil and rocks. My favorite color though was the bright gray bushes. These bushes had no foliage, perhaps they were not in season, but their bark was such a light, startlingly bright gray, that they were almost white or silver. Those bushes were one of my favorite things about the desert.

I dragged myself after my brother all over the park as he took a million pictures. I wanted to be more engaged, I really did, but I also wanted to crawl under a bush and die. Okay, not really, but I was not feeling great. It was especially fun when sun screen got into my eyes and I spent a half hour forcing myself to cry to clean it out.

We left Canyon Land, and headed out Salt Lake City the same day. We arrived that night and had dinner at a great Mexican place called The Red Iguana with a friend of Matt's from college. I passed out again that night, completely worn out.

We didn't really see much of the city until today...which is going to be saved for another post. I have to see if I can steal any pictures from Matt's camera because some things just need to be seen.