Mandy, my ex roomie, had this great idea to go to Moab for spring break. Since I don't go to school and don't really have a spring break anymore I thought this would be a great time. So last week we booked a hotel and loaded up the car and drove to Moab. We really didn't know what we were going to do, but go to Arches one day. We stayed at getto Motel 6, it didn't even have an alarm clock or little shampoo bottles. It was still a good time and it had beds, a showere, and a tv so i was good with it.
We left Wednesday in the morningish...when we got there we really didn't know what to do, so we did what girls do....went shopping. None of us had any money besides Jessica, she was the only one who bought anything. We went to all the stores on mainstreet and saw basically the same things in all of them. Whenever I go to Blanding we always drive past these shops and I always wonder whats in them...now I know and I never have to wonder again. We met these nice people who let us take a picture with them....they where very friendly.
Later that night we went hot tubbing....we happened to meet in the hot tub some of Mandy and Jessica's friends from snow. So it was a fun time in the hot tub, as always. The next day we got up, packed wraps for lunch, got our water bottles, sunscreen, and hiking shoes and headed to arches. This was only my second time going and the first time I don't really remember at all. It was pretty cool, besides all the hiking which i don't do! The only one that we really had to hike hike was to delicate arch which was way worth it, because it was pretty cool once we got there. On the way up I saw all these old people going up so I knew I could make it, besides all the stops we had to take we made it in one piece. All my pictures are in cronilogical order...... 
We were so excited to finally get there that we had to take a picture in front of the sign.
I got a picture by the biggest of the sheep for Jake, because he likes sheep, even though this is a mountain sheep.
This is the first of the sight seeing stops in arches...it actually shows the fault line that runs along the road. There is this big rock that we climbed on that is on the edge of the mountain...it was pretty scary, but I climbed it. This is just a picture of me "running" off the mountain.
This is our second stop, its balancing rock...thats why we are all balancing on rocks. If you haven't seen balancing rock it really looks like its going to fall off.
This is the third and the worst but the best. The hike was 1.5 Miles each way...It doesn't sound like a lot, but hiking up hill and worst of all hiking up hill on slick rock is way hard. It wasn't a way hot day so that helped a lot, but if it was hot then I don't think I would have made it. This is delicate arch, if you haven't been there before it is this huge rock on top of the mountain on the edge of it. It was pretty amazing how this could have possibly been formed and how anybody ever found it. There is a place where you can just stand and look at it or you can go actually up to it. There is slick rock everywhere with no place to really grab on if you slip on fall so you have to be really careful. I made it and stood in the middle of it. It was pretty amazing and I'm glad I did it. 
This is me after...there is a little arch that you can climb up in....this is how I looked after climbing up to delicate arch and climbing up to that arch....don't worry the way back down probably didn't even take half as long as it did to go up. 
This is on our way to sand dune arch..there was a little cavern type thing that we went and took our pictures in.
This is sand dune arch. I liked the hike a lot better, because it wasn't very far and it was all sand which is a lot easier than slick rock.
We were so excited to finally get there that we had to take a picture in front of the sign. I got a picture by the biggest of the sheep for Jake, because he likes sheep, even though this is a mountain sheep. This is the first of the sight seeing stops in arches...it actually shows the fault line that runs along the road. There is this big rock that we climbed on that is on the edge of the mountain...it was pretty scary, but I climbed it. This is just a picture of me "running" off the mountain. This is our second stop, its balancing rock...thats why we are all balancing on rocks. If you haven't seen balancing rock it really looks like its going to fall off.This is the third and the worst but the best. The hike was 1.5 Miles each way...It doesn't sound like a lot, but hiking up hill and worst of all hiking up hill on slick rock is way hard. It wasn't a way hot day so that helped a lot, but if it was hot then I don't think I would have made it. This is delicate arch, if you haven't been there before it is this huge rock on top of the mountain on the edge of it. It was pretty amazing how this could have possibly been formed and how anybody ever found it. There is a place where you can just stand and look at it or you can go actually up to it. There is slick rock everywhere with no place to really grab on if you slip on fall so you have to be really careful. I made it and stood in the middle of it. It was pretty amazing and I'm glad I did it. This is me after...there is a little arch that you can climb up in....this is how I looked after climbing up to delicate arch and climbing up to that arch....don't worry the way back down probably didn't even take half as long as it did to go up. This is on our way to sand dune arch..there was a little cavern type thing that we went and took our pictures in.
This is sand dune arch. I liked the hike a lot better, because it wasn't very far and it was all sand which is a lot easier than slick rock.This is our crew that went along to spring break. It was really fun and I'm glad I went and have friends that I can take a random trip with and have such a good time that I did. But we have to go back again, because we didn't go to hole in the rock, wilson's arch, or the waterfall. Besides the waterfall, hole in the rock and wilson's arch are more things that I always drive past and never stop to look at, so I think we better take another road trip to check those things out!
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I'm in! I think we should take another road trip sometime! I'm so glad you came along. It was a good time!
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