RV Trip Day 21: Antelope Island State Park

When Lucy and I went for our evening walk last night, it was snowing! We were a little worried about getting stuck in the snow, but I checked the weather report, and it was only supposed to snow 1 or 2 inches, so we went to sleep and hoped it would be OK in the morning. There was a light dusting of snow in the morning, but not enough to stop us from going anywhere.

We didn't manage to start as early as yesterday, but eventually made it out to Sunrise Point, which was absolutely spectacular, especially in the snow:

The kids' classes are really getting in the way of things, because we always seem to arrive at cool places after dark, and then the kids have class starting at 9:30, so we have to squeeze everything in early in the morning and it doesn't really fit. It helps that we are in Mountain time and classes are in Pacific time, but they are still too early! I would have been fine with the kids skipping class today so we could just spend the whole day exploring the canyon, but they are surprisingly insistent on not missing class. They get incredibly frustrated when they have to miss class because there is no cell service or I want to take them somewhere cool. This morning we compromised, and they went to class late so we could explore at least a little. Sonya really didn't want to miss one part of her class that involved small groups, so she joined that part from the trail on my phone:

Then we started heading north into Utah. This part of the trip is much less planned out than the early parts, and I didn't really have much of a plan for where we would stop tonight, other than that we needed to get far enough to have a reasonable drive to Boise tomorrow.

After searching for interesting places along our route, I decided we should stay at Antelope Island State Park, outside of Salt Lake City, where there are free-ranging bison and antelopes and a great view of the Great Salt Lake. I got the kids excited about the bison, but wasn't sure if we would really see any. But sure enough, as soon as we entered the park, we saw a giant bison on the side of the road:

And then we saw two more bison in the distance. Once we got to our site, we walked to the Great Salt Lake and watched the sunset:

In other news, our gray water tank actually filled up and stayed filled up today, which means Michael's work on it produced a huge improvement. And still no car troubles on this leg of the trip!

Today's route: