Right now we are in Moab, Utah.  This morning we visited Arches National Park and went on a .3 mile hike to view an arch.  It was a cool arch.  I took two shots with Dad’s camera from two different angles and then we started hiking back to the car.  After we got to the car, we stopped to see a thing that looked like gems coming out of the ground except brown.  Then we went back to the car again and went to the sand dunes.  It was really fine sand.  There were rocks that we were able to climb up and me and my brother climbed up a big one that was probably 20 feet.  I only climbed 10 feet up and my brother went like 5 feet.  There was an arch.  I thought it was almost hidden because there was a piece of it that was being blocked by another piece of rock.  After that we went back to visitor’s center to watch a short video about the national park.  Then we got sworn in for our junior ranger badge.  When you get your junior ranger badges you normally get a badge or a pin.

At 2:00 we went on a Jeep tour.  At first I was in the back and it was the bumpiest spot.  There were no windows and nothing to cover the top of you up. We stopped and he showed us a dinosaur rib bone and a meteorite that looked like a puck.  Zach said ‘they use meteorites for pucks?’  And then we saw dinosaur footprints in the rocks.  The last footprint we saw was as big as 5 or 6 of my hands.    Then we got back into the Jeep.  3 minutes after we got in, it started pouring on us.  It flooded the area.  There was a lot of rain, but it was only raining for 2 or 3 minutes.  Right after that it actually got really bumpy and I noticed it was actually the bumpiest spot.  There was nothing we could not go up – we could literally go up straight.  We went the river.  It was the Colorado River. It was so long. It goes through the Grand Canyon.  My mom didn’t let me go too far to the edge.  My mom thought one of the guides was crazy.  She thought he was going to fall off because he went to close to the edge, but there was actually a ledge and his hat almost flew off when he was so close to the edge.  It would have gone into the Colorado river.  Then there was a picnic.  I ate a few strawberries and I drank a lot of water.  After that we went back to driving and then we went up a really steep thing.  Right before it ended we went up Potato Salad Hill that went straight up!  He said there was a zero chance of flipping but I don’t think that is true, but he said there was some chance that we wouldn’t make it up… but we did!  Someone broke their wrist and cancelled their sunset tour so we said we would take it over and then it started raining so we didn’t.  Then I went kayaking in a little pond at the RV park.  Then we came back and we went over to the fishing pond and we noticed that we could feed the fish.  My mom gave us each two quarters to feed the fish.  We had a great time and then we came back to the RV and watch a show of Different Strokes.  We had a great day!