So while we were staying in Moab for the last three nights of our trip, we spent one day at Arches NP. It's a pretty small park, and the desert heat finally caught up with us on this visit, but we still had a lot of fun!
When we were about 100 yds downhill from the bathroom, Naomi decided that she did in fact have to go to the bathroom. So we jumped down in the ditch right beside the road and held her over a rock. We made a really fun, big deal about it so she was very proud of her 'pee-pee rock!' ;-)
Then we all hiked to Double Arch, it was really fun and unique!
Naomi found a cave to take a break in:
On the hike back to the car Naomi spotted some ants, decided they needed to 'eat rocks!', found some small rocks and fed them to the ants...she was quite proud of herself ;-)
Then we hiked to the Sand Dune Arch, well eventually...we played in a lot of sand and with a lot of rocks before we ever made it the .15 miles to the arch ;-)
Naomi found a little crevice that she nicknamed her 'house'...she would have spent hours in there if we'd let her!
We finally got to the arch and daddy climbed on top. Then we ate lunch in the car and hiked out to the Landscape Arch. It had a huge chunk of rock fall from it in the 90s which is why it is so thin on the right side...crazy, huh??
On our way out of the park we stopped at the closest viewpoint for the Delicate Arch, which is the famous arch that you always see in pics. You can hike to it but we didn't learn this until we got there and it was already getting hot. At that point, 3 miles without shade with each of us carrying a child did not sound all that fun...this was a big step for our adventurous spirits to pass up a hike to such a unique and beautiful landmark...but we also are not huge fans of extreme desert heat ;-)
5 National Parks of rocks: beautiful in its own way, but I think we are ready for a trip to green grass and/or snow-capped mountains next :)
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