Moab!

A couple months ago Kenneth and Adam went with the scouts down to Moab Utah to Arches National Park. They had a requirement with the citizenship in the nation merit badge to visit a national park or national monument. They had a lot of fun so we were talking with some friends of ours and decided we wanted to all go. Lisa and I had never been so it was really cool for us. In total we had 6 families go and we all had a good time.

We drove down on Friday morning and set up camp in a group campground (dirt field). I would recommend a person plan far enough ahead to reserve a place in the park. This campground was noisy and crowded but we made the best of it and had a good time in spite of all the idiots. We did a dutch oven dinner complete with bacon cheese potatoes, broccoli, and chicken. We topped it all off with 3 different kinds of cobbler. There was apple, blueberry and a peach-raspberry. I have to say that peach raspberry was probably the best cobbler I have ever slid down my gulit. It was so good I wanted to go throw up the rest of my dinner just so I could have more! The kids had lots of marshmallows as well. It was the first camp out where I did not eat a single marshmallow.

The next day we got up and went to the park. It was not a bad hike into delicate arch. I carried Krislyn on my shoulders part of the way as well as her friend Brooklyn. At one point I carried both for a little way. It was truly amazing and the pictures do not show the magnitude or the grandeur of it. Truly amazing to see what the wind is able to do. We visited the windows as well as double arch. All were so cool.

As we were leaving the park it started to rain so even our timing was perfect. I would have to say it has been the funnest so far this year. I enjoyed all the people I went with, It was a great experience in the park and making dinner with all the guys was a lot of fun.