{"id":2882,"date":"2016-06-01T16:34:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T14:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2016-06-01T16:34:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T14:34:59","slug":"colors-of-zion-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/?p=2882","title":{"rendered":"Colors Of Zion Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2926\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4233.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4233\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">From pictures I had seen beforehand, <strong>Zion National Park<\/strong> was the most plain and unobtrusive. Upon arriving, the endless patterns and wavy lines carved into the stone begged to differ.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2927\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4234.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4234\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2928\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4247.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4247\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2929\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4256.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4256\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2930\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4261.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4261\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">We were lucky enough to spot a group of bighorn sheep with a baby sheep.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2931\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4282.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4282\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4282.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4282-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2932\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4286.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4286\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4286.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4286-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2933\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4288.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4288\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4288.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4288-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>Zion<\/strong> is calm and colorful &#8211; in every season. During spring, the green of the trees, red and white of the rocks and blue sky create a beautiful scenery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2934\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4292.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4292\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4292.jpg 400w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4292-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2935\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4315.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4315\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4315.jpg 400w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4315-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2936\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4318.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4318\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4318.jpg 400w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4318-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2937\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2937\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2937\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4335.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4335\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4335.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4335-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">wild deer<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Don&#8217;t expect too many culinary choices while travelling through the Southwest, especially close to the national parks. There is most likely to be a Steakhouse, one fast food burger joint and a Mexican place. A lot of restaurants have similar menus with ever repeating dishes like burgers and steaks and a few choices of pasta. The one Italian place we went to was close to not edible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3044\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4079.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4079\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4079.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4079-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4079-270x180.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3045\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4080.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4080\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4080.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4080-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4080-270x180.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">At Zion, we tried a Mexican\/American grill and were pleasantly surprised. They even had some vegetarian choices, including this breaded jalapeno&#8230;doesn&#8217;t it look weird? Even the swirlings cannot hide that. I ordered an avocado salad that even came with tofu. Tofu! I expected the worst but it was actually pretty tasty, with just a tad too much salt =) I was impressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3046\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4330.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4330\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4330.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4330-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4330-284x180.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3047\" src=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/img_4331.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4331\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4331.jpg 600w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4331-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4331-270x180.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">March 25th-26th 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[137,260,299,559,690,850,902,916,932,998,999,1024,1239,1271,1273,1360],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/img_4314.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maponmyplate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}