Why didn't we do this sooner!!
On Monday the Anderson's, Rodger's, Mitchell's and Miller's
packed up our families and headed to Moab.
Probably the best adult camping ever!
Adult meaning having kids in tow.
Besides the horrible realization that there might not be
a campground big enough for 8 adults and 9 kids under 7, on the
week of 'free national park week' the rest of the time was fabulous.
Landscape Arch
Our kids sure did enjoy the landscape
Earlier in the hike Armanie had slid down a rock face so many times
the fabric in her drawers shredded to pieces.
You can't really see her cheeks, right? Yuck!
I can't be more impressed with how this trip worked out.
Each family was in charge of a meal. so packing food was minimal.
All of the things brought were accepted gratefully!
Most of these kids ate cucumbers!
North Window arch
Super easy hike and ginormous
Turret Arch
These rocks were magnetizing.
All the coaxing we had to do with these littles was
getting them back into the car. Usually with some candy, or
revealing the next arch on the map.
These ones are ready to join the 'Parade of Elephants'
South window Arch
Pictures don't do justice to the beauty of the day!
We named this 'rabbit hole arch'
Experiences not captured digitally,
The kids went swimming in the Colorado River. That was a particularly sandy/red dusty day
They had decided to make masks out of the red clay and roll around in it as well.
Camping comes with a different set of rules.
They had so much dirt on them it was irritating their creases.
The water was just right and there was something
European about letting Rocco and Armanie swim in the nude.
Their cute little buns quickly disappeared under the muddy Colorado, but they were more clean than when they got in.
Our primitive campsite that proved to be better fit for our group than any other site. Open area, with this view just above eye level.
Quiet, relatively. And the realization that we didn't have to pack out any human waste. Evidently months before BLM installed a 'stink hole' as Armanie calls them thus annulling the previous requirement (that might have been the deal breaker for me) To think that we had traveled 20 miles away from Arches looking for vacant sites and we just happened to stop at this one in desperation on our way back into to town with thoughts of which hotel we'll have to stay in. After we got there it started to fill up and within 30 minutes the area was full of other campers. Cool crowd, great weather, the stars were so bright! And the moon... I think I could
live on a ranch in Wyoming for sure!
I would totally go back to Castleton Tower!
Then on Wednesday we took a detour before we headed home to a gem
of an area
Welcome to Goblin Valley
Pictures speak for themselves but
the sand...we'll I'm still fetching it out of my eyes!
If it wasn't for the wind kicking little goblins into our eyes
we might have set up camp and stayed another day there.
The kids loved loved it. The parents did too!
Rocco might have not made it out
with intact bones if it wasn't for 4 adults looking out for him
the boy wanted to climb it all and did up to 3 feet
Good thing we packed earthy colors
the red sand doesn't come out of clothes easily
Rocco break dancing in the parking lot.
Should have gotten it on video
Good times!
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