Moab Trip

This last weekend we went to Moab with my sister Janean and her family, my mom, and my brother Matt. We had fun; we had never been to Moab. We decided to leave Kimball behind with Dave's mom while we were gone. I cried the first few days before we even left and of course when we left him. It was the first time I left him for more than four hours, however; by the time we went to bed I was glad we didn't bring him. We went camping and it was freezing. He would have been miserable. I missed him tons and was sad not to have him with us. But I was however glad he was warm and cozy. Dave's mom said he was good, but didn't let her get anything done. I am very grateful she was willing to subject herself to this.

Janean and the rest of the gang left Wednesday and we met them on Thursday. When we arrived we set up camp and then all of us drove up to Dead Horse Point. I guess they call it that because back in the day there was a small watering hole that they would take a bunch of horses to, pick the best ones out, and then leave the rest to die :( After that we all went to dinner at Pizza Hut. After dinner, my mom, Matt, his friend, Dustin, Kevin, and his mom Cammio, Dave and I went to a fun center and rode race cars, played air hockey and played pool. It was lots of fun.

The next day we all met up at Janean's hotel and rode up to the start of the trail to Gemini Bridges. Janean and L.D. and their friends had Old Broncos, Jeeps and Four Wheelers. We climbed up the hills and trails with these. It was lots of fun. My mom got to ride and drive a four wheeler for the first time. She had a blast doing it. It was pretty hilarious at times I must say so myself. Once we got to the bridges it was amazing. It was high up and just looking over the edge gave you the willies. There were a few stories we heard up there. There was some memorial of a guy who used to go jeeping all of the time and one day he went out there with his son. He had too much to drink and rolled off the cliff. The boy jumped out, but the dad couldn't undo his seat belt. Dustin, a friend of ours, also told us that his grandpa came up there with a girlfriend and she got too close to the edge, fell and died. Apparently the edge gave way from under her. That just made me even more dizzy looking over the edge. We did a few different things in our pictures that made it look like we were falling. Don't worry we had ground under us folks. My mom got mad at Me when she first saw the picture and was telling me how dumb I was. I calmed her down and told her that there was ground under us. Anyway it was great fun and a beautiful sight to behold.



After Gemini we dropped the kids off to the hotel with some of the moms and they went swimming. Dave, my mom, Matt, and I went with L.D. L.D.'s dad and some of their friends wanted to do some rock crawling at a place they called Fins 'N' Things. That is where you ride in a jeep or Bronco and climb up, down, and sideways on rocks. It sounds kind of dumb, but it is actually quite a rush. Larry (LD'a dad) rented a nice Jeep and he was the only one that could make it up this really steep hill. My mom and I were riding with him. I thought we were going to die. It was like a slow motion roller coaster. What a rush. He had me and my mom squealing. After that we got out and others took turns taking the hill with Larry.

Sat Morning we met up with a friend of Janean and L.D's that had been to Moab several times. He was going to take us on several tours, but we had some jeep/bronco troubles that detained us. Since we got a late start he just took us to what they call 7 Mile. It was torturous terrain. It was hot and windy but it was fun and beautiful. It took us a great while to make it through. In fact Dave and I had to leave when we were done. There were some pretty tricky hills we had to take and at times the kids and women got out to walk up or down the hill just in case a vehicle would roll. It was fun though. There was so much more that we wanted to do and so we would like to go back. In fact L.D. invited us to go with them in the Fall. We were sad that some of the family couldn't come. Mike had to work and Hollie had plans. Joe couldn't come cause too many people were already off from work, and Sheri and Steve couldn't come cause they had to work. We missed them and hopefully we can all plan a trip together. Anyway we all had a great time. I am especially glad my mom could come. She needed a break and she had a great time.