Honeymoon Plans

We've made a lot of progress with the plans for our honeymoon (in October)! :)  We are already getting so excited for this trip - It's going to be awesome. I thought I'd go ahead and give you a little sneak peak of our plans, since we already know a lot of the basics! We just haven't planned out our hikes or activities yet, and we'll probably just do a lot of that planning while we're there. We've also booked our campsites for all but one place, and we're going to have two nights in hotels, and we already booked those too. I know it seems early, but they recommend booking everything 6 months in advance because they fill up! A lot of places were already booked up, so I'm glad we started planning this when we did!!

Day 1: Fly into Vegas. Drive (about 4 hours) to the Grand Canyon, and camp 2 nights. We already booked this campsite (it's on the North Rim), and it's AMAZING. Here's the view from our campsite:

Yep, that's the frickin' canyon right through those trees! Crazy...

Day 3: Drive to Canyonlands National Park (about 5.5 hours). We're staying one night at a cute little B&B. We figured we'll want a shower after a few days of hiking around the Grand Canyon. Here's a few photos of Canyonlands: 

Day 4: Drive to Arches National Park (only about 30 minutes away) and camp 1 night.

This is not our campsite (I don't think this is an actual option), but our campsite is pretty darn beautiful too. 

One of the many arches we will see! 

Day 5: Drive to Capitol Reef National Park (about 2.5 hours), and camp 1 night. This is the place that we don't have a camping reservation yet, because they don't allow reservations... They only have 1 campground with water available (with about 50 campsites), so hopefully we'll get one of those... If not, we'll be roughing it a bit more in one of their "primitive" camping options, which have no water available. 

Capitol Reef! So pretty. 

Day 6: Drive to Bryce Canyon (about 2.5 hours), and stay 1 night in a hotel. This one has a hotel right in the park, and it has the option to stay in these cute little cabins that were built in the 1920s (that are only $20 more per night than the standard hotel rooms... so we opted to spend the extra $20). Here are a few pictures of Bryce Canyon and the cabins: 

That big rock protrusion on the left side of the picture is called Thor's Hammer

Beautiful! 

One of the cute little cabins!!  So worth the extra $20!!  

And here's the inside of the cabin. It's so charming. And the fireplace works! There's no TV or internet, but that's kind of the point of being there! 

Day 7: Drive to Zion National Park (about 1.5 hours) and camp for 2 days. We wanted a little extra time at this park, because there's so much to do. We're for sure going to hike the Narrows (picture below if you don't know what the Narrows are), but we don't know what other hikes we want to do yet! 

Here's two people hiking the Narrows! That'll be like us, except neither of us is that tan... Haha. Imagine them with much paler skin!

There ya go, that person looks a little paler. That's more accurate probably. But aren't the Narrows super cool? 

Here's another picture of Zion! I kinda doubt it'll be green like that in October... but it sure is pretty.

And then on Day 9 we head back to Las Vegas airport (which less than 3 hours away). We have a late afternoon flight, so it'll be very do-able!