Arches, Canyonlands, and Dead Horse Point

It is National Parks week from the 17-25th so today we took advantage of that and went to see the parks here in eastern Utah that we haven't seen before. With no entrance fee it was a great deal. We started out about 6am and made it to Arches and out to hike before 8am. We first went to the windows arches, they were cool, probably some of the largest ones we saw. Then we hiked out to Delicate Arch lookout. We didn't to the hike to the actual arch because it was a little much for Thomas though he didn't seem to mind and of the hiking. He walked all by himself most of the time and followed Katy, Abby, and Madelyn where ever they went. The girls had a great time we climbed lots of rocks until we were tired. Then we drove out to the Dead Horse Point lookout. It was very impressive with it's view of the canyon and the river but the crazy 1000 foot drop to certain death had this momma worried about her kids so we drove on down the road to Canyonlands where there were rocks to climb that had only a moderate fall. We did great, no one was hurt but we did loose a pair of pants and undies do to sliding down the rock on butts. Luckly I did bring an extra pair of pants for just such an emergency. So that is why Abby is wearing different pants in the pictures.