Moab Part 5: The End

I realized that I forgot to post 2 pictures from the sand mountain.  First, Jason & his cousins on the very top.

And then poor Jared’s face after he “swam” down the sand mountain.

He was pretty miserable there for a while, and his scalp was covered with sand too.  He’d been all hot and sweaty (climbing sand mountain would do that to anyone!) and so the sand just stuck to his head.  Poor boy was a good sport about it.

After we were done playing at the sand mountain we drove into the park one more time.  We went to the Delicate Arch overlook so that everyone who hadn’t been lucky enough to hike in for the sunrise could still see it.  I’d forgotten how far away it is from the overlook—a mile is a long way.  Like I said before, I’d also forgotten how many people there would be there, now that we’d been spoiled by our private viewing.  But the overlook hike was much easier for everyone to do, even the babies got to come.

Jared had a meditative moment.

The kids all wanted to go back to Double Arch to climb more, but we realized what time it was and that we needed to head home.  So we had an elegant lunch in the parking lot,

and then started the drive back to Andra’s house. 

 

Our mini-family reunion at Arches was great!  Next time we’ll just do it longer, and persuade more people to come!