Here is the recap of the trip. We took Reed to his 2 year doctor appointment on Friday morning after his birthday. After that, we hit the road. It took us a bit longer to get down cause we stopped for a long lunch and then stopped for gas, then stopped in Green River to let Reed play on a playground for a bit to stretch his legs. He did great in the car, especially with Grandma and Papa (from now on referred to as G and P) entertaining him. When we got into town and settled in the hotel, we took G and P up to check out Slickrock Trail. Slickrock is a very famous mountain biking trail outside of town only a few minutes. G and P were pretty awestruck about the landscape and Reed enjoyed his second day out on his bike. Fogg couldn't have been more proud watching his barely 2 year old son biking the slickrock trail.
Here is G and P with the landscape of Southern Utah behind them.
Reed did great the rest of the day but got a bit wound up cause we went to bed a bit later than usual. The next day we had a quick breakfast and headed down to the southern part of Canyonlands National Park. We stopped and looked at some ancient markings on Newspaper Rock.
Then we drove into the park. G and P were pretty amazed at the landscape. We found a few short trails to check out that Reed could easily walk. The first one was about a mile loop. The first half was in the cave part (the trail was called Cave Springs) and the second half was on top after a ladder climb. Really neat little hike. Reed did the entire thing on his own, no need to carry him at all, in fact, he even climbed the ladder by himself!
Checking out the caves with Dad
Climbing the ladder by himself!
On the top with Mom
Getting a few rocks to throw from Grandma
Cowboy Papa (he kept talking about cowboys all weekend)surveying his land
We did a second, less exciting hike after that then headed back up towards Moab area. After a quick sandwich, we took a four-wheel drive trail down Kane Creek road. We took the road to the top of a saddle called Hurrah Pass. We were able to see down to Dead Horse Point and the Colorado River. Here is a little family photo.
G and P with Dead Horse Point behind them
Fogg found this cool leaf of rock to sit on.
We had an early dinner then headed back to the hotel for some much needed rest after such a long, fun-filled day. The next morning, Sunday, after a yummy breakfast at the Jailhouse Cafe, we drove up to Arches National Park. Our first stop was to balance rock, another famous landmark. It was a short hike around the very precarious structure. A little windy family photo. Notice Reed's hands in his pockets. He is fairly obsessed with his pockets and kept them there. After the picture, he went running, tripped and couldn't catch himself due to the hands in the pockets. Not only did we hear a very loud thud of his skull colliding with concrete, we also felt it in the ground. Luckily, he didn't cry too long, seemed over it in a few minutes and never really got too bad of a bruise or bump.
Next, we headed over to the windows area. There are two windows, North and South, then close by the Turret Arch. We hiked out to see them all, and stand under one. Cute 3 generation picture.
Papa with his head in the arch.
Papa with his head in the arch.
Reed and his Dad hiking behind the windows.
Next, we drove to the Delicate Arch - the most famous of them all. Reed fell asleep in the car so I stayed with him while Fogg and G and P took the short half mile hike to the viewing spot.
We saw lots of these little lizards.
Fogg just liked this sign.
After Arches, we had lunch then went out to Dead Horse Point and Gemini Bridges. Dead Horse Point is a Utah State Park and is relatively small. The main attraction there is an overlook to the Colorado River. It's quite unique in it's landscape with perfectly carved out levels. The legend is that cowboys would herd wild horses to the point where it was very narrow and corral them there. Once, a bunch of horses were left there to die of thirst looking at the river 2,000 feet below.
Hiking out to another vantage point.
The last stop that day was to Gemini Bridges. The bridges are another famous bike trail starting near the entrance to Arches. You can also access it by four-wheel drive trail near Dead Horse Point. We were excited to be the ONLY people there! It was strange for us because every single time we've been there before there are many other bikers, dirt bikers and jeeper's. For some reason, everyone was gone. It's an incredible site that you can even walk across. There are actually two bridges only separated by a few feet. You certainly wouldn't want to jump across them though. Here is G and P standing on top of the bridges! You can see the hole below them that goes probably about 500 feet to the floor below. And you can see me in the shadow on the bottom right of the picture. There is a big hole between us. Sorry, you can't see much contrast but it's a crazy picture if you figure it out!
After a great final dinner in Moab we headed to bed! The next morning we took G and P to see Fisher Towers on the way out of town.
Reed and Papa!
We took the long way out of town past what we thought would be some more landmarks but we seemed to miss them all (or they were dumb). We made it home by late afternoon where Reed rode his bike some more (shocking).
We were so happy that it was so warm down south and we were able to enjoy a new landscape. We came back to our house to rain! We love that area so much and actually headed back down the next weekend (last weekend) to have some more fun. Fogg dirt biked and I just had some great laid back time in the sun with friends and my little guy. While we were down there, it snowed at our house - blah! Well, there is the long wrap-up of our trip, hope you enjoyed it if you have made it this far... Now it's time for house projects...
Cheers~
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