We spent two days in Moab, Utah, where we toured Arches National Park and where Mike and Grace went on a rafting trip down the Colorado River. Arches is as beautiful as everyone promised it would be, but we found it to be a little too hot for us this time of year (100 degrees). Moab is a really neat town, completely centered around adventure sports and the national parks, but with a progressive (for Utah) feel and a visible arts and culture scene. Sort of like a Woodstock in the high desert.
For folks who don't get to the national parks very often: the park service has a terrific junior ranger program which really engages young children (ages 6 to 12). Apparently, kids have been getting more and more disconnected from the outdoors over the past few decades; I think the junior ranger program is a really nice way to help reconnect the next generation with the outdoors. In the program, kids work on activities specific to the particular park or monument,and upon completion they get a pin and certificate or patch from the park ranger. Grace and Lucy have done the program in a few parks so far. Above is a picture of the two of them being sworn in as junior rangers at Arches.
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