This past Monday night, for family home evening, we brainstormed as a family all of the things from our trip that we would have photographed had we had a camera. Then, we each took 2 of the items and drew a picture for posterity. I won't bore you with the stories. On to the pix...
Riley:
"We played in the sand at our campground"
"We saw some motorcycles"
Lacey:
"We hiked to the Colorado River"
"We had an Easter egg hunt at our campground"
Lori:
"We looked at the Moonflower Canyon petroglyph panel at our campground"
"We hiked to a small pond at the end of Moonflower Canyon at our campground"
Ron:
"We hiked to the Moab Mammoth petroglyph panel"
"We drove the Chicken Corners jeep trail"
To fully document the trip, see below the list of adventures from our brainstorming session that did not make the final art cut:
- We jumped off of a 6 foot high sand "cliff" (as Riley called it) and slid down
- We hiked the Moab Rim trail (2 miles, 1,000 ft elevation gain)
- We got sand in our shoes... LOTS of sand in our shoes
- We got the Jeep stuck in the sand -- We made about 5 attempts at a loose sand hill on the Chicken Corners jeep trail before taking the bypass, we only have 2 wheel drive right now
- We had fun campfires
- We had smores
- We did monster shadows -- Our campsite was right at the base of a cliff, we made monsters of various sizes and shapes on the wall using our shadows, we think we are on to the inspiration behind many of the strange petroglyphs throughout the southwest
- We manned the Utah 4-Wheel Drive Association booth at the Easter Jeep Safari vendor show
- We experimented with a tent roll -- In the spirit of cowboy bedrolls, we revised the idea by putting our camping pads inside the tent, sleeping bags on top of that, spare blankets on top of that, pajamas on top of that. Then we rolled up the entire thing inside a tarp into a giant roll about 4 feet long and 2 feet in diameter. This saved us about 20 minutes setting up camp and about 20 minutes taking down camp. It was very bulky and hard to load into the back of the Jeep, but probably took up a little less room than the individual components packed separately. A revised version of the idea has already been discussed, look for details after some more testing.
- We had carbonated fruit -- One of our favorite ways to pack the cooler is to use dry ice instead of regular ice. On this trip, since we were only going to be gone for 3 days, we put all our dry food in the cooler along with everything else in order to save space. That meant that we had apples and oranges (which normally pack with the dry food) inside the cooler. We began to notice that all of the fruit had a bubbly tang to it. We theorized that when the carbon dioxide from the dry ice sublimated into a gas form, it displaced all the oxygen in the cooler. The fruit then absorbed the carbon dioxide gas, making carbonated fruit! It was very tasty and none of us could get enough.
- We had dinner at Cracker Barrel in Springville on the way home.
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