The West and our final week

We left Cedar City Utah to visit the Zion National Park for the day. It was a lot of fun and it was very pretty. It is the only canyon where you actually go down inside the canyon and look up to the top at the rocks.

For me (Sarah) my favorite part of the Zion National Park was the HORSE RIDING!!! It was soooooooooo much fun. Dad, Josiah and Joel rode mules but mum and I rode horses. Dad’s mule was called Maynard, Mum’s horse was called Kiddy, Josiah’s mule was called Buckshot, Joel’s mule was called Cody and my horse was called Chief. The horse riding was soooooooooooooooooo much fun!!!

That night we drove a few hundred miles to Cameron, Arizona. On the way we crossed a big bridge that went over the Colorado river. We arrived at our hotel late that night. It was Indian themed and there was a store that we looked in called the Cameron Trading Post. After that we went to bed.

The next day we went to the Grand Canyon. It was absolutely amazing!!! It was so pretty and you really can’t put it into words how awesome God‘s creation is. We spent most of the day here.

That afternoon we drove to Las Vegas. On the way we crossed the Hoover Dam which is huge. When we arrived in Las Vegas late that night we then spent the next two days hibernating in our room. There were two exceptions. One morning we went shopping. The other time Dad took us out to watch the fountains at the Bellagio hotel. You may have seen the Fountains at the end of the movie “Ocean’s 11”. They were awesome. The water feature had lights and it played to the music of the Pink Panther.

On Monday we travelled from Las Vegas to our final motel in Anaheim, LA.

On Wednesday Mum, Josiah, Joel and I all went to DISNEYLAND!!!!!!!!!! (Dad had to stay behind to sort out shipping our truck and trailer to NZ). It was soooooooooooooo much fun and there was soooo many fun rides. We got to meet Mickey Mouse, Tigger and Pooh Bear!!!

On Friday we went to SEAWORLD!!! That was awesome as well. We went to a seal show, a solphin show and a killer whale show. I really liked the killer whale show. It was really cool with lots of jumping whales. The whales try to splash the audience. Josiah and Joel got completely SOAKED because they were close to the pool and the whale splashed right in front of them!!! We also went on two water rides and then I got soaked!!!

Yesterday we went to UNIVERSAL STUDIOS!!! It was sooooooooooooo cool!!! We saw how they make movies and how they do special effects. We saw movie sets and went on the movie rides. We had pictures taken with Scooby Doo, Shreck, a weird scary dude, Sponge Bob and Jaws!!! It was sooooooo awesome!!!

So now we are just sitting in our motel getting ready to fly back to New Zealand tomorrow evening. We can‘t wait!!!