Easter in Moab Day 1

We had a most wonderful time in Moab, Utah over the Easter weekend. We left on Friday morning early and traveled six hours West to Moab. The girls all traveled pretty good, though Paige was DONE with her car seat by the end of the day!

After finding our perfect camping spot along the Colorado River (the last one available, by the way) we did some driving - to Canyonlands National Park and Dead Horse State Park (where the last scene of Thelma and Louise was filmed, if you care).

Here we are looking out over the canyon and the LaSal mountains at Dead Horse. Breathtaking!
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And here is Sean with his girls overlooking the canyon at Canyonlands. Again...breathtaking.
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We headed back to camp, finished setting up and started the fire. Hot dogs and s'mores! This was pretty much the scene every evening around our camp over the weekend (only we were each a little dirtier every night!)....

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So that was Friday. We have so many pictures that I'll have to do this in parts...so stay tuned for pictures from our Saturday (and then Sunday and then Monday). Sean took some really awesome landscape photos as well...I'm sure he'll be sharing those with you soon on his blog.

By the way, (as if you didn't already know it) all, or at least 99%, of these pictures are by Sean. The guy loves taking pictures. He took 796 of them over our Easter weekend away. I took...maybe 3?! Some people need bread and water to survive. I'm pretty sure my husband needs a camera/something to take a picture of and the chance to fly on a regular basis or he'd wither away and die.

Me? I need a good book to read, my journal to write in, and...coffee.

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