Arches National Park

It was free National Park week, so we decided to do a quick trip down to Arches National Park (April 25-26).  Jeff finished work early on Thursday so we left around 4pm.

We stopped in Price to eat and let the girls get out some of their energy at the McDonald's playplace.

They loved the stop!

Even Packer was happy to be there!

The girls were so excited to go to a hotel!  That last half hour seemed so long because of the all the excitement!

When we got to the hotel in Moab, we were pleasantly surprised to find out that they upgraded us to a suite for the same price as their regular room!  We had so much fun playing in the hotel that night!

It had a front room with a huge flat screen TV and a balcony.

It had a little kitchen

And two king size beds (that were pretty bouncy. he he)

And we had another balcony from our room.

We were wishing that we could have stayed another night or two there!

Friday morning the hotel gave us a coupon for the Pancake Haus.  We decided to give it a try.

It was very busy there.  They had HUGE pancakes.  We left pretty full!

Then we started our drive and exploration of Arches.

It was beautiful!

We got a lot of stares, glares, and compliments with our girls in princess dresses instead of hiking clothes.

We definitely stood out!  I thought they were pretty cute princess hikers.

Courthouse Towers Viewpoint

Balanced Rock

Delicate Arch

We weren't able to the hike to it, we just hiked the path to the lookout point.

Aliyah loved the hike and kept asking if we could go hiking again.

Family picture by the Delicate Arch 

(it's in the distance between Jeff and I)

We have great zooming capabilities on our camera!

The girls favorite was Sandy Arch

They were able to play in sand, explore some caves, and play under the arch.

   We could have spent all day there.  They would have loved it! 

Unfortunately we had to get back that evening, so we kept going.

All three kids fell asleep so we had to do our last bit of sightseeing from the car.

Skyline Arch

Double Arch

Parade of Elephants

Although it was brief, it was such a fun trip!  We will definitely be coming back again.