Birch Hollow

The weekend of July 22nd we made a quick trip to St George.  Zion had fun playing with Nana and Heather all day while me, Zac, Cyd, Cody and my dad went into Zion's National Park to do a canyon called Birch Hollow.  It was a LONG day.  My dad hadn't done the hike for over 10 years and thought he remembered it taking about 8 hours.  He was off by just a hair.... after a good solid 12 hours we finally made it out of the canyon.  We still had a good time, though.  This was my first time canyoneering since I was barely pregnant with Zion.  In fact, I didn't even know I was pregnant last time we went.  I just felt like crud and was low on energy and then we found out we were going to have a little one the day after we got home.  It was fun to be back in a canyon, but I will admit it was really hard to be away from Zion all day.  I felt a little homesick without him and I don't think I will be up for another long canyon any time soon.