Our Little Sock Monkey

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Moab on Wednesday

Wednesday morning we packed up our belongings at camp. We ate a delicious breakfast of potatoes, eggs, bacon and toast. Then we headed into town so Brad could rent a mountain bike. We had to wait until after our next campsite opened up before Brad could ride. We took Declan to the park in Moab and played with him.

Then we drove along the Colorado River and looked at the amazing canyons.

We headed to our new campsite and set up our tent. Then Declan and I took Brad to get his bike and headed to Slickrock. He rode for a few hours while Declan and I wandered around town and went on the swing at the park again. Brad called us for a ride when he was done.

After dropping of Brad's bike we wandered around Moab together. Then we went back to our campsite, had dinner and went for a swim in the pool! We turned in early after another busy, wonderful day!

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While I was writing on Declan's blog, he woke up from his nap and wanted to type on the computer. He wrote the "words" above.

Canyonlands National Park Tuesday, May 20th

Tuesday we woke up and got ready to head to Canyonlands. Brad made us bacon and eggs for breakfast on our campstove. We jumped in the car and headed towards the Needles area of Canyonlands. The drive to the park was about an hour and it was a gorgeous drive filled with red rocks, buttes and canyons. Along the way we saw the Newspaper rock. It was covered in ancient petroglyphs.

We could see turtles, buffalo, horses, Indians riding horses and shooting deer and elk, giant footprints that looked like Sasquatch. The petroglyphs were amazing.

Here are some pictures of the drive to Cayonlands.

Here we are arriving at the park!

We made a quick stop at the visitor center to help plan our visit to the Needles area of the park. First we did the Roadside Ruin walk. It led us to a Pueblan granary used by natives.

Walking to the granary

The granary

Eating a snack on the trail.

Next we headed out to the Elephant Hill. It's a dirt road that leads to a 10 mile round trip hike into the wilderness of the Needles. We knew that we couldn't do a 10 miler with Declan and the heat, but we wanted to check it out. We parked at the trail head and walked out on the trail. It was absolutely amazing. It was one of the most beautiful places I'd ever seen. We walked as far as we wanted, seeing only a few people. We stopped to play a bit between the rocks and take pictures. Declan had another snack.

Running to make it in the picture

Walking back to the car.

Next we went for a walk to Pothole Point. It was an interesting walk and looked out over a canyon.

Then we drove to another lookout point and saw this canyon and rock structures.

After a lovely day in the needles, we jumped in the car and headed to the Island in the Sky, which is the part of Canyonlands near Moab. It was much more crowded. It was beautiful too, but a different kind of beautiful. Island in the Sky is several overlooks into a massive canyon.