61 (D-70) Bryce Canyon (and a return to Post 22)

61 (D-70) Visiting Bryce in the “off-season” is highly recommended and rewarding. Sixty percent of visitors come to Bryce Canyon June through September, but October through May is a fantastic time to enjoy the park.

During our visit in Bryce Canyon, we will have the opportunity to do a short walk (1.5 kilometers): Sunrise Point to Sunset Point. Keep our fingers crossed that there won't be thunderstorms!
You can see it on the map of Bryce Canyon.
http://home.nps.gov/carto/PDF/BRCAmap1.pdf

Again, a song comes to mind. Do you know the song "Sunrise, Sunset" from the film A Fiddler on the Roof* (1964 Broadway musical; 1971 film)? The parents, Golde and Tevye, watch and think of the past during the wedding of one of their daughters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9yK0C6s9j8

Another, more modern song called Sunrise, Sunset: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_7uKnqmHYU&feature=related

Do you know which one I prefer? And you?

Jane
* The Fiddler on the Roof: the name is taken from Marc Chagall's painting "The Fiddler" (1912)
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VOCABULARY:
sunrise = when the sun comes up in the morning
sunset = when the sun goes down in the evening
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Not finished yet. It's time for the answers to your first quiz. Don't you remember? The quiz you took in January (Post 22) about The Grand Canyon. You can go back there and look again at the questions before reading the answers.

ANSWERS:
1. The four kinds of rocks found in the Grand Canyon are: granite, limestone, sandstone and schist.
2. John Wesley Powell was the first white American to explore much of the Grand Canyon. (If you are interested, his book: The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons, first published in 1895.)
3. Visitors began to go to The Grand Canyon in large numbers in 1901.
4. Five million people visit The Grand Canyon each year.
5. Take only PHOTOGRAPHS. Leave only FOOTPRINTS.
6. You can visit The Grand Canyon on foot, on a mule, by air (helicopter or airplane), by boat or out on the Skywalk.
7. The Hualapi Indians built the Skywalk.
8. It cost 40 million dollars to build the Skywalk.
9. The music you hear from the recording of the text is Canyon Lullaby.
10. A lullaby is a soft, pleasant song (or music) intended to lull a baby to sleep.