Moab

Since we'll be rather poor this year, I wanted to do some inexpensive day trips and weekend trips around here instead of going on a big vacation. Brian had some comp time last week, so we went down to Moab for the first of many Utah adventures. It was great to get away and awesome to see the unique rock formations of Southern Utah. 

Here are some pictures of the first hike we went on. We hiked the "primitive loop" in the Devil's Garden area of Arches National Park. There were tons of arches on this hike, as well as some rock fins, which are what arches are made from.

We were lucky enough to get the last campsite in an area convenient to the park. Thanks Joe for the tent you gave us--we finally put it to good use. (We also found some receipts from the Manassas Walmart  from 2006. Do you want those?)

The next morning we went to see some more arches, including Delicate Arch, the famous one that's on the license plates. It was pretty cool and much bigger than we thought.

This is a cool double arch with some cool people in front of it. I bet you can't guess who took that picture.

And this is Balancing Rock. It's pretty self-explanatory.

We also saw some petroglyphs in various places. Near our campground, there was a whole cliff wall full of them.

We had a pretty fun weekend. We didn't even make it to Canyonlands National Park, but there is still lots of time this summer.