Goodbye AZ! Crazy Sand Storms!

Day 8: On Tuesday morning March 10, we had to leave .our Airbnb in Arizona. It was bittersweet, but I knew that it wouldn't be 5 years until I returned to my beloved hometown Gilbert. We got in the car headed towards Herekin near Zion's National Park. On our way home to Idaho we wanted to go to Bryce Canyon and the Grand Canyon as well, but the weather was not in our favor. On our way to Zion we stopped at this really cool canyon in Page ,Arizona called Horseshoe Bend that overlooks Glen's Canyon. The hike was about a mile and the canyon and red rock was beautiful. Towards the begging of that endeavor we would get small gusts of wind, which started to grow more severe.  All of the sudden the most intense sandy windy weather I have EVER encountered in my life started literally pulling me towards the edge of the canyon!😱😱 I like couldn't stop. My mom had been closing her eyes and if she hadn't opened them I surely would have gone off the edge. I started crying and sandy snot was coming out of my nose! :0 I was so overwhelmed. We started heading to the car and we met up with my siblings who seemed to have taken the experience well. We dumped the sand out of our shoes and started driving to our hotel in Herekin. The drive was long but I really just needed time to cool off from the whole sand extravaganza. We arrived later that evening at the hotel and decided to relax in the swimming pool. The rest of the evening we watched food network, and then dozed off to sleep excited for the hiking we would experience the next day.