The weekend was amazing, beautiful, spectacular, enlightening, and oh so much fun! First of all, thanks to Sukie for finding this! I hope that more people can make it next year for the annual trip :)
Let me preface this post by saying that I have wanted to go to Moab for the past 4 years after hearing amazing stories from my climbing friends. Although I didn't get to go climbing this trip, I must say that Moab was everything that i had imagined and more and I have many trips beginning to be planned out it my head to get back there soon.
We got into town Friday evening and checked in with the rafting company and picked up our sweet t-shirts and started getting really excited for the next day.
Then we checked into our camp ground which to say the least was a bit ghetto. Definitely not ruffing it but it was still fun. The boys were quite disappointed that it wasn't "real" camping but that's this weekend's adventure so they got over it. That night we had some dinner, hot dogs for David and I and salmon and shrimp for the gourmet chef/David's roommate, Nate. It was really fun. It was pretty hot that night so we just slept on top of our sleeping bags and tried to get comfortable on the ground, something that is not as easy as it used to be (getting old :)
The next morning we got up early and got all ready for our exciting rafting adventure! It was so much fun! Our guide was so much fun and the other people on our raft were fun. We got lucky because we didn't have any young kids or older people on our raft and consequently we got to hit the good spots of the rapids and do lots of fun games and tricks with our raft and group. There was also amazingly breathtaking scenery and i enjoyed just taking in the beauty. Needless to say, rafting is my new favorite hobby/sport and I'm wanting to go on a longer 3-6 day trip in the next year. It would be so much fun!
After our rafting trip we had a couple hours before the dinner/concert so we went back to our campsite to relax and recover from our eventful day. We walked around town a bit and David got me some cute earrings. He's so great! Then we headed back to the rafting place for dinner and the concert. Dinner was good and the concert was better than i had anticipated. It was peter Breinholt (sp) and a couple local guys. I'm not usually a big fan of that kind of music but the concert was entertaining and enjoyable.
The next day we packed up camp and went to Arches National Park to do a little hiking(mostly per my request) before we headed back to Provo. I'm so glad that we did. It was amazing! We only had time to hike to Delicate arch but it was great. I definitely want to go back and take a few days to explore more. It was just so beautiful. We started our hike early enough that it wasn't too hot and we got to see the Arch, take some fun pictures, and get back on the road before the worst heat began.
View from the road into Arches
Delicate Arch- if you look closely you can see David :)
Delicate Arch again
Cool Rocks
The three gossips
4 comments:
I've never been rafting so maybe this is a dumb question, but what keeps you from just falling right off of the raft, especially when you get hit by the water?
We're going next year for sure!! I gotta look around and see the beauty and say. . "Where are those sister missionaries when you need them?"
Haha! Amy you crack me up! I knew you'd enjoy that "religious moment" :) What can i say I was a sister missionary:)
Carolyn, there isn't much to keep you from falling off. You can put your feet under something in the boat and that helps. It wasn't that bad though. I never really felt like i was going to fall off.
Carolyn--I've been a number of times, and have only been dumped twice. But you don't want to be strapped in cuz if the raft gets overturned or suctioned to a rock, you DON'T want to be part of that!
The last time I went we all got dumped--our guide's calling in life apparently wasn't as a raft guide--but the cool thing was we have photo documentation of the whole thing! AWESOME!!!!
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