Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, USA

Today we headed early to the Capitol Reef National Park, this is not a porpular park for tourist, but it was really beautiful. It was covered with snow. The town-Torrey that we stayed for the night was about elevation 7000ft.

We drove through the scenic drive in the park; it was 10miles and it took us about 2 hrs as we stopped by at almost all the spots that were beautiful.

After the 10mi scenic drive, we drove along highway 24 further to get more beautiful scenery as according the Park Ranger, it was as nice as the 10mi scenic drive. We stopped by at the Fruita Schoolhouse, I will name my reading section in my new office - Fruita Reading Corner, isn't the name beautiful. The school dated back to 1896. We could see all the antique desks, chairs etc used by the students.

Fruita Schoolhouse

  Around 2pm, we headed to Bryce Canyon National Park, we took the route 12, one of the most scenic route in the USA. It was really gorgeous, the road was quite winding, at some point it had an elevation of near to 10,000ft. The temperature at some point was near to 35 F.

The snow besides the road is taller than me :)

On the way we stopped at Boulder, a small town along route 12 for lunch. Nice little restaurant, we had spicy pork with rice, their specialty and turkey melt.

 After that we continued our journey to Bryce National Park, we stopped at a few places for photo shoot. Along the way we saw lots of wild dears crossing the road, we saw some wild turkeys as well.

It was about 7.30pm when we arrived at our hotel – Best Western Bryce Canyon Grand Hotel. It was really cosy with a fire place at the lobby with some huge sofas and rocking chairs.

We went to the store at Ruby Inn which was opposite to our hotel to buy some food as we were still full from our heavy lunch. Did some work that night before heading to bed. At least manage to get the RSVP for the Course preview online and modified the invitation to be sent out to the press and those who are interested.