Utah

We have made it to Zion National Park and are camping here for 2 nights. Found a cafe with internet access, but am going to have to wait till we get to California to upload all the pics. Camping in the Rockies was rough, very cold and rainy, Moab was wonderful, and Zion just keeps getting better.

Will update all this on the 14th with pics and diaries.

Aloha!

Cat Here!

Our drive from Kansas to Boulder was uneventful, but once we got into Boulder it got more interesting. It was cold, so we stopped and bought sweatshirts and long pants for the girls and a better air mattress for all of us. Then we attempted to find our campsite. We didn't realize that it was deep in the Rockies!! And it was cold and raining! The drive was gorgeous, I love the Rockies! But we were tired after a long day of driving and then to find it wet and cold..yikes! This was the only place where Mom and Dad got a bit snappy with each other..;) It is no fun trying to keep little girls dry and set up a tent in the pouring rain. Our campsite was completely flooded, but we managed to get into the tent and everything stayed fairly dry inside. The girls were well bundled, but J was cold..:( He was glad to leave the next morning. The drive to Utah was so pretty though. Once we got some good food in us - a feta and tomato omelette for me and rellenos for J, eggs for the girls (this was in a little mountain town, and while we waiting a bit for a table, it was worth it as the food was good) - we thoroughly enjoyed the drive to Utah.

Moab was so gorgeous. We saw a big storm coming in so when we got to our campground we found that they also offered little, one room cabins for only a bit more than our site cost. So we got one of those just in case. After the wet night in the Rockies, we weren't taking any chances!

We were a bit nervous that the brewery wouldn't be open, considering it was Sunday in Utah...but it was! We had some decent beer and some good eats for fairly inexpensive.

The next morning we drove through Arches National Park and were literally awed by the beauty of the canyon! The rock formations were amazing, some seeming to defy gravity altogether. LAmLo has a great memory and so was excited to see some of the same formations she'd seen in pictures and on the post cards in the little store at our campground. Her and J did alot of site seeing at the different stop points. X was wanting some alone time with Mama, so we hung around the car but still saw alot!

After our site seeing, we started the drive into Zion. I thought Arches was amazing, I was not prepared for the intense beauty of Zion National Park. The colors, the smells, the formations were beyond words. The girls weren't too sure about the very long tunnel we went through as it was very dark, but J and I were enjoying it. We drove way down into the canyon to our campsite where we stayed for 2 nights. We hiked and swam in the river...we found a wonderful organic fruit farm and had the best grapes we've ever eaten. XAmLo found a love for plums there...:) Zion is definitely a place I want to return to....

Next stop, Nevada!