Spring Break Trip – Day 2!

I am just loving having the internet in the hotel rooms!  So Day 2 of the trip turned out to be a pretty good day also!  While we looking on the internet for places to stay in Moab I saw that we were going to drive right by Colorado National Monument – another National Park – and you know our hobby is to visit as many national parks as possible so guess where we headed today!  This is what I LOVE about road trips with no set agenda – you can just go wherever you want.  We did get a little lost (even with Google Maps on the Blackberry)  and had to do the stop at the gas station and ask for directions thing.  Which thank goodness we did otherwise we would have driven way out of our way but we did eventually find

And got the family picture in front of the national park sign.  I have a whole scrapbook dedicated to just the pictures of the group shot in front of these signs so I can see how which national parks we have been to, I know I need to get a life!  Anyway Colorado National Monument was a beautiful place to visit.  I had seen this on the map before and always thought it was just some statue – you know monument/statue, but no it is a nice 23 mile drive along a beautiful canyon.

 

 

Unfortunately, it was a very windy day so our picnic we had planned ended up being a car picnic – hey we’re flexible!

But the highlight of the day was Tanner got his very first Junior Ranger National Park Badge!  He had to work for his badge by completing assignments like finding and drawing plants, learning the rules of the park and going on a hike.  And if you ask him he now knows what erosion is and can identify a Yucca plant.

   

Ahhhh a proud moment!  Tanner thinks the badge is so cool because you know it goes along with police, firefighters, military. . . his favorite things!

After leaving the park and driving across the state line into Utah and then through the middle of NO WHERE we made it to Moab and everyone (except for me because I’m blogging!) went to bed early so we can get to up and get going early.  Hopefully the wind will go away because it’s not a lot of fun to hike in the wind, but Don did have a great time dodging tumbleweeds driving here.  Tomorrow – Arches National Park!

Our mighty travelers!