Camping, Hiking and National Parks

It was Sean's birthday over the weekend and we decided to take a few days off work and go camping to celebrate!! The plan was to leave Thursday morning and come back Saturday night.
During that time we would go to some National and State Parks, hike and camp. So...that's just what we did. Our first stop was at Goblin Valley. It was awesome, we got to climb around on the "goblins" and we played hide and seek....this ended up not being so much fun for me, seeing as how I couldn't find Sean for quite a while. As you can see, there were quite a few places to hide! We also did a long hike through some slot canyons which was a lot of fun even though what we had planned to be a nice stroll turned into an 8 mile trek:). I wish we had the camera with us because there were some pretty cool sites.

Our next stop was Capitol Reef. There we hiked to the natural bridge, looked at petroglyphs and camped. In this picture you can't see the petroglyphs, but there was this walk way that went along side the mountain where you could get a pretty close look at them. It was amazing to me that the drawings have lasted so long After camping off the side of the road back in a secluded area that we found, we did a little more site seeing around Capitol Reef and then headed to the Natural Bridges park.

We made a few stops along the way as we passed through the Canyon Glenn park. Just over the ledge there used to be a mining town which was washed away in the early 1900's, now there is a landing strip in its place :(


We then arrived at the .Natural Bridges park We filled up our water bottles and got a few tips from the park ranger on where to go. We took the short drive around the park stopping at the natural bridges of course, and looked at the Indian ruins too! These houses looked to me like only a midget could fit into them, and then Sean informed me that Indians were midgets, which cleared everything up:)


Our last destination was Arches National Park. We arrived a little bit late and had a little bit of a rough start finding a place to camp for the night. The place that we originally wanted to set up ended up having a marathon running that next morning, so we would have been stuck at our camp site until 12:30 that afternoon.
So we decided to keep looking and looking and looking until finally, we found a coveted spot in an RV park! Apparently Moab is the place to be during Spring Break and we got to listen to drunk people and a girl hacking up a lung all night! Oh well, it ended up working out and we had a place to sleep which is all that mattered. The next morning we got up, ate breakfast and packed up all of our stuff and headed over to park! We had a lot of fun looking at all the beautiful arches and hiking up to "delicate arch"! That's right ladies and gents, this is the arch that is on all those Utah license plates! We also saw a lot of other amazing rock formations and had fun hiking around. So over all, this is the best camping trip I have ever been on! Thanks Sean!

Also, here are just a few more pictures for your viewing pleasure, and so you can feel like you were really there with us!