Wow! We did A Lot of things today!
Day three saw us getting on the road before 6, a vacation miracle. The kids and I took Dramamine for our trip through the mountains, so I wasn’t really conscious for the first couple hours. I woke up to snow. At the continental divide. The kids weren’t that excited until they realized they could climb the rocks.
Matt being contemplative......
Further on, we had lunch at the legitimately beautiful "no name" rest stop. Look how happy the sienna looks in the mountains!
The girls were taken with these weird-dandelion on steroids- flowers.
Further down the road (and now it’s hot!) we were in Pallisades for some fruit stands and a lavender farm.
Inside they had lots of yummy things to try. Alex got a taste for some fruity balsamic with bread.
Just a little more down the road we found our first national park, Colorado National Monument.
What am I doing in this picture, did I mention we did a lot of things this day?
The drive to the top was beautiful and terrifying. I was going to call it a canyon, then monolith but wanted to be accurate, so this is from the nps website.
"Towering monoliths exist within a vast plateau and canyon panorama."
This is the view from right outside the visitor center where the kids did their junior ranger packet. That got sworn in by a new ranger.
Alex spotted the first lizard!
The drive from Colorado to Moab...wow. Being from Iowa Mountains of any kind are impressive, so seeing 2 or 3 different types at the same time is overwhelming in a good way. As we got towards Moab the red rocks and cliffs and other formations I can’t name. On our way to the condo we passed by Arches and Matt could not help himself but get a brief preview.
We finally made it to the condo and met our old friends Anna and Daniel and our new friend Frannie. The kids’ manic excitement was palpable. They talked and asked questions and played with Frannie. I suggested playing a game to slow them down but exploding kittens is not really the right game for that.
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