MOAB (it's more than just a bumper sticker)

I had the last week of June off so Neil and I decided we would take a mini vacation like we did during my break last year when we went to Yellowstone. We thought we'd stick with the whole outdoorsy theme so Neil took it upon himself to plan a two day trip to Moab.

It's about 4 hours from our home in Draper so we woke up nice and early on Tuesday...and I mean early.


We got down to Moab before noon and thought we'd start our adventure in...


Arches National Park! There was red rock everywhere and it was so beautiful.


We also so a very large balancing rock which is named "Balancing Rock" how fitting.


We also saw tons of arches (imagine that) and each one was so amazing!


It was over 100 degrees and of course there were no trees anywhere so we had to find our own kind of shade...which mostly consisted of rocks the sun was behind and little caves.


After being out in the heat and sun for hours we went into Moab and got some amazing burgers, fries and shakes at Milts, the oldest restaurant in Moab.


We then went and saw a dinosaur foot imprint and some Indian writings on the red rock.


And then we went back to Arches and watched a beautiful sunset.


We were exhausted and slept like the dead that night and then woke up nice and early to go to Canyonlands National Park the next day.


Canyonlands is obviously known for it's many canyons,


this crazy greenish-blue stuff that might be from salt, or outer space, no one seems to know.


and they even had an arch of their own.