Bryce Canyon National Park
Someone from La Bretagne was here before me!
We hiked the Navajo Loop Trail. Half of the loop was closed due to snow. So we hiked down a steep trail and then UP the steep trail on the way back.
A hard climb, but very good exercise and so very beautiful.
Arches National Park.
We met up with some of our besties in Moab. We rented an airbnb and had plenty of room for playing and cooking and catching up.
We hiked the Landscape Arch trail and a little ways further up the Devil's Garden Trail.
Besties. Cannot stop gabbing even for a photo.
Delicate Arch from a distance.
Canyonlands National Park.
We hiked the Mesa Arch Trail and the Aztec Butte Trail.
I was particularly interested in seeing this Puebloan Granary.
Food storage was important to ancient peoples. Food security is not a modern concern.
The Aztec Butte trail became very steep at the end and I was afraid that I'd be sliding on my but(te) the whole way down. It seemed dangerous with a baby on my back. Hubby and my little mountain goat children did the last stretch without me.
We stopped at some scenic overlooks.
We also checked out a local thrift store and scored some souvenir Moab t-shirts. The house that we stayed in was excellent.
Then it was on to route 70 for our long drive home. All across the Great Plains states the temperatures looked too low for tent camping (20F). So we stayed in these cute no frills KOA cabins. They had space heaters and some had TVs, but no running water and no cooking inside.
They were warm and had the right number of beds. Everything that we needed was there.
They seem to all have these signature front porch swings.
On the way home we stopped to see some church history sites around Missouri. We visited the Liberty Jail where Joseph was imprisoned for 3 months on spurious charges.
The Visitor's Center had some fun pioneer toys and beautiful scenery to illustrate what life would have been life at that time.
I did not realise that the visitor's center is built around the jail. We were able to go down and hear the story and see what the experience would have looked like.
The Far West temple site is just a fenced area with a monument and a few corner stones.
One of our KOA sites FINALLY had a working Jumping Pillow. We saw it on our way out and had to stop and let the kids try it out for a few minutes.
Legoland. Columbus, Ohio.
Brother S built this cute little house for Baby A out of the giant blocks in the toddler section. They should have had a huge room full of blocks this size for kids to play with.
Legoland was not as amazing as I expected. They had one ride and several fun stations for children ages 5-8. I felt that it lacked activities for older children. The big kids spent a lot of time doing this stop motion animation station which seemed to be the only thing geared to kids over 8 years old. We also enjoyed watching several short 4D Lego Movies together.
And from Legoland we headed homeward. We left Legoland at around 3 in the afternoon and made it home around 11pm.
