Sunday, November 25, 2018

Day 1: Arches National Park

We flew up to Utah a few days earlier than normal for Thanksgiving.  Ari and I planned to take the kids to see two national parks and a national monument.  We started our first full day in Arches National Park.  

Here is Isaac getting a little life from his dad. 

Zev, Maya, and I.  It started off pretty cold in the morning. 

Here are Zev and Tahl with some petroglyphs that were only a few hundred years old. 

The boys each said that this challenging hike was their favorite of the weekend. 


There were a few spots we had to hold their hands for safety. 




They didn't always agree that it was necessary. 

After about an hour or so we made it up to Delicate Arch. 



Here we are underneath it.  It was really beautiful. 


This is the view from inside of it. 

A picture on the way back down. 


This is what Maya did most of the time. 

The next arch we went to was Sand Dune Arch.  

Here are the boys under it.  

They had so much fun climbing on the rocks. 



Here is Isaac as Simba being held up by Rafiki. 

Zev climbed way up high. 


Isaac and Tahl had fun staying behind to play in the sand. 


Who doesn't love a good sand angel. 





Here is Tahl at Balanced Rock. 




Tahl is the little blue speck here. 


This was the a fantastic place for panorama mode. 



Just riding a train.

This arch is one of two arches called the window. 



That tiny person on the far right is me. 

The boys and I thought the Double Arch was amazing. 

Ari, Isaac, and Maya were tired, so they stayed in the car. 

Here is Tahl relaxing while he waited for Zev and I to catch up. 


The boys climbed right up to the very high edge of this one.  Ari would have died, and even I was nervous and holding on to them. 


I don't think you can tell, but Zev had just made the very difficult climb back down from above where we were looking out. 

This was the last big rock they were playing on of the day. 


They really loved this park because it was so interactive to them. 

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