Since we couldn't go to Lake Powell with our friends who had invited us, I felt like we needed to do something for fall break. So, we got one of the last rooms left in Moab and went there with about half of the state of Utah and a lot of Japanese and French tourists.
Sue Kowallis is a Moab pro and texted us an agenda for the two days we were there. We visited and hikes Arches and Canyonlands and did every single thing on her list except we did not get gelato...we got fudge instead!
All of Mariah's friends were busy so she was solo with us. She was a great sport but she also said that she really would like to go with her brothers! We couldn't even believe that because as an only child...she could order anything she wanted on the menu and she got her own queen sized bed.
We saw lots of the famous arches and some of the hikes were a little more scary than we anticipated. The good thing was that we saw those little kids and those old folks doing it so we figured we could too!
Oh look! Another Arch!
Dave and I did not plan to dress alike, but we did.
See those steep rocks!
Going across them.
So that we can see another arch!
We really liked the rock towers that guided us on our hikes. This was a cool one because it was so tall.
When I was taking a picture of it, I told Mariah and Dave to move so that I wouldn't get their shadows in it. It still didn't fix the problem and finally Mariah said, "Mom, you have a shadow!"
The last time we were in Moab was when Bo was 6 months old. It was hot and super windy and we ended up going home a day early because I just could not endure another night in a tent as the wind blew sand in while I tried to feed a screaming baby. This sand tunnel was the highlight for the whole trip. When the Law cousins found this, it was cool and shady and they spent a very long time playing in ti.
We made an evening hike to delicate arch. We tried to catch the sunset, but the clouds covered that up. Needless to say it was still a great ending to the day.
