Sunday Salon -- Easter 2024

View from the condo where we are staying at Zion. We woke up to a wintery wonderland.

Weather: We are in Zion, Utah. It is snowing.

Easter Sunday Communion elements

Church on TV, legos for Jamie, coffee and jammies for us.

Easter: Happy Easter. We celebrated today by watching the live-feed from our home church service, which included communion. We had a bottle of wine open, so why not participate? The boys had a little egg hunt inside.

The view of the red rocks while we waited for our turn in the tunnel. The sky is giving us a warning of weather (snow) to come.

Zion National Park: We all drove through the park yesterday to get to our "cabin" (which is nicer than our house) but we didn't stop. We're here all week and will return to explore it up close. But we did take a few shots out the window.

Muggin' for the camera. I asked Ian to look up. I didn't mean look that far up.

Fun: We are vacationing with our whole family (seven of us) here in Zion. We also hope to visit Bryce Canyon National Park if the weather cooperates. Today, though, we stuck close to home and went on an adventure in the snow. The boys are delighted with the snow and love their hilarious wet weather suits.

Don and I and long-dead dinosaurs at the Utah Natural History Museum. We really enjoyed the special exhibit they are hosting right now about Jane Goodall.

Traveling in an EV: This is our first long trip in our EV. We are learning that we have to adjust travel time and be patient if we have to wait our turn to charge but by-in-large it has been a fun experience. While we charge we have listened to our audiobooks on our portable speaker so we aren't draining the battery while we are trying to charge it up. We spent one night at my sister's home in Boise (Thank you), two nights in Salt Lake City, where we went to an organ concert in the Mormon Tabernacle, and visited the Natural History Museum. What a lovely setting.

Books: We've finished two audiobooks: 

• The Fraud by Zadie Smith, the author's first historical fiction and not a personal favorite. 
• Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz, the second book in the Susan Ryland series. 

       I've also finished two print books: 

• Dark Testament: Black Poems by Crystal Simone Smith. The book is made up of erasure poems using the text from Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. Very clever and moving.
• No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler. A moving memoir about her life after a cancer diagnosis.

       I'm currently reading:

• Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knightley. The book is organized by themes so I am bopping around trying to read up on the parks we hope to visit on this trip or ones we've recently visited. 
• When You Ask Me Where I'm Going by Jasmin Kaur. This book is a mixture of poems, essays, illustrations.

Smile Network: Biden's Greatest Achievements So Far Sometimes it seems like the news is only about the bad stuff politicians are doing. Read this if you want to feel good about what Biden has done so far.

And just for laughs:

Happy Easter. Have a good week!

-Anne