Day 5 Race to the Finish (Spring Break 2010)

Day 5 We spent our last day at Arches hiking the shorter hikes just off the road like Balanced Rock. Then we ended up at Sand Dune Arch. This is my favorite place at Arches and I was excited to introduce my children to it. They caught on pretty quickly that this is a...

Day 4–Cold, Cold Day 4 (Spring Break 2010)

Cold, Cold Day 4 It poured rain all night while the wind blew so hard at times I thought the trailer would fall off it’s jacks. So what do you do when it’s cold and rainy? Get in the car and drive to La Sal. Why La Sal? Fifteen years ago my husband and I...

Day 3 (Spring Break 2010)

Day 3 Back to Arches we went. We started out at Devils’ Garden so we could see multiple arches along the way to our ultimate destination: Double O. We passed a man in shorts and sandals getting out of his car. No shirt. My two-year-old pointed and said,...

Day 2 (Spring Break 2010)

Day 2 Tuesday morning we hiked to Delicate Arch. It turned out to be my five-year-old’s favorite hike. Kind of surprising since it’s one of the longest in the park. He hiked all the way in and out without complaint, and never lagged behind. He later told...

Spring Break 2010

I hope you all had a beautiful Easter celebrating our Savior. Maybe you noticed I was absent all last week. Our family took off on a week long spring break trip. It’s the first time we’ve had an entire week for spring break so we decided to take full...