Moab pics part I

I'm going to have to upload the pictures in a couple different posts due to the file size limit. The kids said some memorable things through out the weekend I'll quote throughout. Here is the view of Castle Valley from the Porcupine Rim trail. It's one of my favorites because we found a back way in so we have a short drive to an amazing view. The trail bores Paul so we only do it when we have a newbie who hasn't seen this amazing creation. Nathan was trying to play his game boy and was frustrated it was bumpy and asked up to slow down and Andrew said to him " This is Mo-lab. Mo-lab is bumpy!"

This next view is from the trail we lead every year on Friday - Kane Creek. It's not the most difficult (unless it's raining, then it's impassable) but it is one of the prettiest just from the variety of scenery standpoint. I realized we've done this trail so often that even though it changes a bit from year to year, it doesn't really chance and I only remembered to take a few pictures. Sometime this morning life for Andrew fell apart. He's been on this trail more times in his life than all the others put together. Not sure what happened, no one had an accident or anything but every time we hit even a 1% grade, even on predominantly flat and even dirt road he started screaming that we were going to tip. We finally had to tell him to put his head in Nathans lap and close his eyes.

These next few pictures are all from the Saturday trail Cliff Hanger. It really did have an amazing view looking out over the Colorado and Johnsons flat. Andrew's day was rough again and finally Nathan looked at him at one point and said "no screaming the jeep"... we might make that into a bumper sticker. Andrew and I ended up walking about 3/4 of the five mile trail. He never asked to be carried, he just wanted me to hold his hand and not be in the jeep.

Sometime after lunch Andrew got over his fear...good thing the next day we did the most difficult official trail down there!