Trip to Southern Utah: Day 1

Okay-these pictures are in no particular order, because I am too lazy to reconfigure them all about. Sterling and I went on our FIRST (and probably last) trip with just the two of us. We wanted to do something before the baby gets here, and before the summer gets all hectic with family agendas. I have never been to Moab, Arches, or Canyonlands...and Sterling thought he hadn't either but his brother just informed him otherwise. Anyway, obviously he didn't really remember. Sterling packed EVERYTHING and had it ready to go so that we left as soon as I got off work on Tuesday night. We spent that night at a hotel (probably because we spent too long wandering Ikea on our way) and it was the very first time we've ever spent a night together at a hotel! Lots of fun. When we got there, we discovered that Sterling had only grabbed the shell of the tent we had borrowed from my sister...not the poles or anything useful like that. So we had to spend a little more money than anticipated, and we purchased our own lovely tent for the trip. Although, kudos to Sterling, he packed LITERALLY everything for the trip, and that was the only thing he forgot, except our cooking pot. He even remembered games and hot chocolate!

This is Sterling and I (and my big baby belly) beside Landscape Arch...the longest arch in the entire park!

This was my favorite part of the trail...crawling up this big rock. It was really beautiful. The first day was rather chilly, so I had a hoodie on most of the hike, but it warmed up the next two days!

This is Double O arch. It was a really fun hike getting out there.






This is Dark Angel. It is REALLY massive. The pictures don't really do it justice.

These are our new beautiful camp chairs we purchased for the trip. We were thinking it would be our one new addition to our camping supplies, only then we ended up with the beautiful new tent as well.