Today we left our hotel in Green River around 8:30 for Capitol Reef National Park. Capitol Reef is named after the dome shaped rock the looks like the Capitol in D.C. and the holes in the rocks that look like reefs. We arrived at the park 2 hrs. later and drove through. We stopped at the Frutia school. Which was last used in 1941. The Frutia settlement was very small. Only 10 families ever lived there at any given time. We saw petroglyphs on the walls of some of the rocks/mountains. We drove the dirt road up to Dry Wash. Along the way we saw a abandoned uranium mine. We were going to hike up the Dry Wash trail, but it was looking like it was going to rain, plus, a sign at the beginning of the trail said"do not enter if rain threatening". We did walk a few hundred yards up the trail. We then drove to Bryce Canyon's visitor center and got Sarah and Christopher's junior ranger books(upon completing these books they receive badges with the park's name and a patch). We drove a few miles and found a picnic table to eat dinner at. Christopher and I played football for a little while. Then we drove to our hotel to stay for the night. We went swimming in the pool. Dad and Sarah went to Far View Point to star gaze tonight. In the morning we are going to sunrise point to watch the sunrise.

Also, we have gone around 3000 miles now.