On May 20, we had to be out of our apartment in Provo. It was insanity trying to finish all the packing, loading the car and the storage unit, and cleaning the apartment to check out. Especially since Aaron was at work until about 3:00 that day and I had to be at work before 6:00. Yikes. We ended up getting some great helpers (our home teachers and their wives) to help Aaron with the last minute cleaning while I was at work.
My (former) coworkers at the Covey are awesome. They threw a little party for me in the box office while the show went on. I really do miss working there, although I have to admit I don't miss working late in the evenings!
Anyway, Aaron picked me up after work and we spent the night at our friends' apartment (Mike and Michelle- thanks for letting us stay!) since we had checked out of our place. First thing in the morning, we headed out toward Arches National Park.
We spent the day hiking in Arches. The weather was beautiful and the scenery was magnificent too. Aaron and I had a really good time. The sunburns we both got weren't so fun, but it was worth it! (Remember you can click on the photos to see them bigger.)
The next day we went to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. It's one that a lot of people don't know about, hidden in Colorado. It's actually really neat. It's a huge canyon (obviously...) and you have to get a permit to hike into it. It's apparently really difficult and dangerous to hike down there, even for really experienced hikers, so we decided to just go around the rim. There are various lookout points along the rim that you drive to, and most of them have a short hike from the parking lot to the actual lookout platform. It was awesome. We were really impressed with the view at each point, though we had been hoping for a little more hiking than we got. That's okay though, because in the middle of our last hike of the day (a 1.75 mile hike) it randomly started hailing on us. We were almost to the end, so we rushed to the lookout point and almost immediately started running back toward the car. Of course, 5 minutes later, the hail and rain had stopped and the storm clouds were blowing away. So strange.
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| About halfway between the visitor's center and the highest point in the park |
The other 3 days were mostly uneventful, as we were pretty much just driving. Although we did get to see Aaron's brother, Steve, while we were in Columbus, Ohio for the night. But we mostly just listened to a lot of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. We got through the first 2 and a half books of the series before we arrived in Manassas on May 25th.
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