Arches

Fall Break

Oct. 8-12, 2015

Arches National Park, Utah

For fall break, we went up to Utah so Dallin could receive his Patriarchal Blessing from his Great-Grandpa Packard.  On our way up to Grandpa's, we spent half a day at Arches National Park   We told Sydney we were gonna do some hiking at Arches.  Well, when you stop at the pay station for Arches National Park, you are hundreds of feet below where the park is, and when you look up, all you see are red cliffs.   So as we were in line to pay the park fee, Sydney noticed the red cliffs and started freaking out, "I can't hike THAT!"  Once we drove up into the park and she realized she wasn't required to hike up the faces of cliffs, she handled things a lot better.  We had a great time hiking to Double Arch and Landscape Arch, enjoying a picnic lunch and just letting the kids scramble around in the red dirt.  And Bennett put a hole in the seat of his brand new pants.  So mission accomplished, right?