St. George - on the way to Zion National Park

Lise served another good breakfast on the front patio. I sat with everyone but didn't eat anything since I had decided to fast for Yom Kippur. I felt very virtuous - and just a little hungry -  fasting while everyone else ate that good breakfast.
Lise and Yoni invited us to stay an extra day to give Elise more time to recuperate, and even tho it is said that fish and guests stink after three days and we still had one day left, Elise claimed to be feeling better, and I felt a need for us to move on if we were ever to get home before Halloween, so we bid Lise and Yoni a very fond farewell, reprogrammed my GPS, and set off for Zion National Park.

We got as far as St. George, which is on Route 15 about 20 miles or so from Zion, and decided to stop at the Information Center,which was in a big building along with a gift shop and a convention center. The convention center was hosting a gun show; there was a sign outside which said "No loaded guns permitted." I'm not sure if that meant that the sellers or the buyers or both were not permitted to bring in loaded guns, but in any case we passed up the convention and went straight to the Information Center where they did have a lot of information about Zion and also about St. George. Contrary to the corollary to Murphy's Law which says that "When you are traveling, any big local event will take place either shortly before you arrived or shortly after you have left the place," St. George was actually having an international documentary film festival that very week.

 We found a nice campsite in Leeds, a little further up Route 15, and then went back to St. George to see one of the films that seemed particularly interesting. It was a documentary which featured reminiscences of a Romanian Jewish lady who had been a communist and a member of the Resistance in France during WWII. She was part of a women's unit whose job was to talk to German soldiers in Paris and demoralize them about the war and also recruit German soldiers as spies. The film was  interesting and dealt with an aspect of the war with which I was not familiar.
We had a hard time finding the theater but still got there in time to have a nice dinner first at a nearby restaurant - an excellent salad bar and soup for just $5.99. We ate so much that Elise couldn't even eat the free popcorn they gave us at the movie.