Easter in Cannonville, UT with the Ekbergs!
We try to meet with the Ekberg family once a year. Last year we met near Bryce Canyon in the winter, so this year we did the same in the spring. In Jan. 2021 the four of us had rented the cutest AirBnB in Cannonville, UT. I decided to reserve the same one to show the Ekbergs its charm.
The Easter weekend crew!
Fortunately, we had beautiful weather and explored Kodachrome Basin State Park our first day. The kids all, without complaint, did a one mile hike! Yay! Everyone got to enjoy the electric bikes as well. Surrounded by monolithic stone spires, called sedimentary pipes, we enjoyed catching up, redirecting kids, lunch, and more redirecting kids.
The next day was Easter! We did the typical Easter baskets and Easter egg hunt around the house. The kids got along so well and were quick to find all the eggs. With beautiful Bryce Canyon a short drive away, we packed up intending to hike along the rim (the year prior we did the Navajo Loop Trail, but with kids hiking on their own two feet, we thought this 3-mile hike was too much for Ella and Miles). We didn’t make it too far before we realized that we would be hiking in waist deep snow. Although hilarious, it would take all day to make it along the rim, and we’d all have frozen toes by the end so we called it quits.
To break up the drive home we stopped on the East side of Zion National Park. We stopped along the side of the road and explored a stream and canyon all to ourselves…imagine that in Zion? The kids got wet and dirty, we saw bighorn sheep and waterfalls cascading over the giant canyon walls and it couldn’t have been a better ending to our weekend.
We will continue our yearly tradition of meeting the Ekbergs somewhere between Salt Lake City (where they live) and Las Vegas. Now that we have visited Bryce Canyon twice with them, we will have to explore another spectacular location in southern Utah next time.