UTAH

July 11-12….We drove into Utah on Monday afternoon. We were out on some remote roads and were still chasing many crazy weather clouds. For the record…Mommy and Allie went potty on the side of the road 5 times today (we even made up a little song about ourselves). When you are in the middle of no where for 300 miles, you gotta go. We pulled into Moab, Utah around 4:00. The kids really wanted to swim and since they did excellent in the car, I let them get dressed and head to the pool. Andy and I were hashing out what we wanted to do for the evening. Daddy wanted to drive to the Arches National Park, but mommy didn’t want to get in the car again. After a small debate and some research we thought of a plan. We read about a cool bike trail through town that runs along a creek and ends at a “beautiful” new park. It sounded very nice. The plan was to pick up dinner on our bikes and head to the park. I got advice from the hotel agent and we were off on our bikes. The clouds rolled in and the rain soon started along with some thunder. We were all soaking wet, but decided to go along with the plan. Our journey to find the trail was quite interesting. We were going through a very run down neighborhood with dogs barking at us and many random items in front yards. We finally stumbled on this trail that ended up being not so pretty. It was full of graffiti and there were some people walking on it that weren’t quite the type I would want to be around with my kids. So…..it’s still pouring and we exit the trail and decide to take side streets again. We get to the hamburger stand that the hotel agent said, “oh, best hamburgers in town, you gotta go.” The place was closed and even if it was open, I don’t think we would have chose to eat there…it was ghetto!! So, we ride our bikes back to the main street, just to feel safe again. As we rode through the pouring rain we found a nice restaurant for dinner. We enjoyed a yummy dinner in our wet biking clothes and then went in a few souvenir shops to find a Utah treasure. After that we rode back on our wet bikes to the hotel and took warm showers. It was quite the adventure in Moab. In the morning we will head to Arches National Park!
July 12…we woke up to sunshine (yeah)!! Andy and I each did a quick run at the hotel, got ready, and headed to Arches National Park. This was an awesome place. The kids were very excited to see all the amazing rock formations. When we would get out of the car they would just run, run, run. We did a short 1 mile hike to see the north and south windows. Andy took the boys on another short hike while Allie and I waited in the car. Miss Allie likes to be carried everywhere and it was quite warm out, so we opted out of the second hike. It was a great morning and we enjoyed doing our sight seeing first thing in the morning before our drive. We left Arches and headed for Colorado!!