"The Grand Circle" is the circle of national parks in Northern Arizona, Southern Utah and Southwestern Colorado. They're Mesa Verde, Arches, Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon, Zion, and the Grand Canyon. And now, we've officially been to all of them! We started at Bryce Canyon after Capitol Reef (complete with Paul's Aussie Hat). Bryce is beautiful because of the look of its rock features (sorry, no big geology lesson this time). This one was carved out by water, and is still being eroded by water in the winter. That means that all of the rocky spires, called HOODOOS! (isn't that fun? Hoodoo Hoodoo Hoodoo...:)), look a lot like coral. In fact, if it weren't so hot, you could kind of imagine that you were underwater when you walk among the hoodoos down in the canyon. On the
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