Friday morning we left all our responsibilities behind and escaped to Moab for the weekend. This was the first trip with just our little family of 3 and we were definitely looking forward to it. We timed the 3 hour drive down around the time of Henry’s nap and thankfully it worked out great because he slept the whole way down, which was a little vacation in and of itself : ) and we were definitely grateful for it. We got to Moab in the early afternoon and found a place along the river to eat our lunch. Henry had just woken up and was full of energy. We sort of knew going down that it would be impossible to keep him clean so we embraced the dirt and let him crawl around. It took less than 2 seconds for him to start shoving rocks in his mouth. We thought it was pretty funny, and he thought us telling him “no” was funny. It was pretty cute but here’s hoping he figures out what no means soon. Our first hike was 3 miles round trip out to Corona Arch. It was beautiful and for the most part we had the place all to ourselves.
The day ended with dinner at Pasta Jays, a rather disappointing Jazz game and a sleeping babe that ended up spending the night in bed with us.
Saturday we hiked to Delicate Arch. It was such a fun hike, a little tough at times, I’m just glad Mckay was the one carrying Henry. I had never hiked to Delicate Arch so I didn’t know what to expect, it was fun hiking up the steep face of sandstone and along the rock walls. You get to the top, go around a corner and get the most amazing view of the arch. It was so much fun and we met a lot of interesting people while hanging out at the top.
Henry fell asleep the last few minutes of the hike back to the car so thought it would be a good time to take a drive so he could sleep in the car. We drove out to Dead Horse Point National Park (who in the world thought up that name? depressing.) We took turns walking out to the lookouts so one of us could stay in the car with Henry. The views were amazing.
We left the park taking the Gemini Bridges trail out for a little off-roading fun. Amazingly Henry slept through the whole drive. The road took us out into the middle of no where and some of the sites were incredible.
Henry was awake by the time we got back into Moab. We grabbed some dinner, browsed through some of the shops, and shared a scoop of Huckleberry ice cream.
Sunday morning we decided to keep things easy. We drove back into Arches and drove out to the Windows. We walked around North and South Window and Turret Arch before heading home.
we had fun. little family trips like this make me so happy. can’t wait for the next one.
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