Day Three, continued

In the afternoon, we stopped at Bridal Veil Falls. Lorie and I remember stopping here when we were little girls, traveling to or from Nebraska with our parents. It was always a highlight of our trip and we wished we could actually go to the falls.

Well, there was an avalanche a few years ago at Bridal Veil Falls. It took out the gift store, ice cream shop, ariel tram and part of the road. We think the falls were also diverted a little. However, good comes out of bad. A walking trail was created from a parking lot to the falls so people can walk down to the falls and in 2005 a bridge from the old road was built over the Provo River so people can park on the old road side and walk over to the falls. This is what we did. We walked across the bridge and waded in the pool at the bottom of the falls. There were several people there. Some were wading and some were actually climbing the falls. We want to go back with the whole family sometime when we have planned for it and play and hike together. Lorie knows that Randy would love to hike up the falls and in the surrounding area.

We spent so much time playing today that we had to drive into the night to make it to Rawlins where we had a reservation. We had fun driving in the dark and Elizabeth could not believe how many stars were in the sky. She tried to describe them, but words failed her. This is not a common situation for Elizabeth, so Lorie and I were tickled by it. When she tried to describe them she said, "Look at the sky. No, don't look! You are driving. I'll try to describe it. They look like....like....little stars!" We were happy to hear that the star in Wyoming still looked like stars.

We drive to Mt. Rushmore tomorrow.