Sorry for the delayed post for yesterday! It has been a busy 24 hours.
Woke up in Moab to a special breakfast – homemade crepes with Nutella and bananas – we are super fancy. Tried to get out to Arches at 9:30, but in our usual fashion, we woke up at 7 and didn’t get on the road until 11:00. Good news is that it was a shower day – we take advantage when we can. So we all smelled fresh and pretty for the day.
Got to Arches around noon and Tyler was just about jumping out of his skin since we had been promising for days that he would be able to climb stuff when we got to Arches. Spent the next four hours letting the kids run around and climb rocks. We took a few small hikes and then one big one to see the famous “Delicate Arch”. It was about an hour hike – uphill – but wow was it worth it. The views from up there were absolutely gorgeous. I’m just hoping the pictures do it justice.
We found out in the morning that one of Damon’s cousins was also at Arches – we tried to find him but never did. Small world!
Left the park around 5pm, not too thrilled about the 5+ hour drive we had ahead of us to get to Escalante. I guess I should say that Damon was not too thrilled since the kids just tend to pull their beds out and go to sleep! We were on a completely deserted highway and wanted to get as far as possible before the sun went down. The roads out there are very twisty and turny with a lot of steep grades and big drop-offs on the sides – not really something we wanted to do in the dark.
Sun went down around 8 so we pulled over for a quick dinner and then got back on the road. For anyone taking long road trips, I highly recommend books on tape. We got through about 8 more chapters of The Hunger Games on that long drive – made it go by much faster.
Pulled into some RV park around 10:30 or 11 and everyone just crashed hard because of our BIG next day… slot canyons!
Quote of the Day: Unfortunately, nothing was post-worthy…
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