Moab

I'm terrible at blogging. It always seems to take so much time, and people have been bugging me to post some new pictures. The trip we went on over Christmas break was to Paris, Vienna, and Rome. I didn't want to post anything until I finished the other two posts about Vienna and Rome, but I've decided to forget about it and move on.

Brendan and I went to Moab with his family last week. His sister was in town with her family from Seattle, and it was Brendan's spring break. I just took work off Wednesday and Thursday. It was my first time going to Moab, and it was really pretty. We went to Arches National Park and hiked to the delicate arch. The weather was perfect. It was around 75 degrees with a nice breeze. We stayed in some cabins at an RV and camping site.

On our way back home we stopped in Hiawatha, Utah. It was a small mining town located near Price, Utah. Brendan and his two siblings were born there, and he lived there until he was five years old. It became a ghost town, but four families live there now. A lot of buildings and houses were burned down, and what is left standing is really run down. Brendan's parents owned the grocery store and gas station there before they sold it and moved. It brought back a lot of memories for his family.

Here are just a few pictures. I will post some more later.



Brendan and I in front of the delicate arch, and I'm looking really pregnant. I would pass by people that were hiking that were taking a rest and they would tell me they could keep going if I could. I actually didn't think the hike was that hard.


Brendan and his brother, Christopher, went mountain biking. I brought my bike, but they went at 7 a.m. and that was too early for me. Sleeping in sounded better.



This is all of us together in front of one of the cabins we stayed in.



This is inside Arches National Park. We were hiking around taking pictures.



This is a picture of the jail in Hiawatha. They didn't use it when Brendan's parents lived there, but it was used in the early 1900's.


Here is Brendan inside the jail cell. When Brendan was a kid he locked some girl in one of the mine outhouses, and the sheriff decided to punish Brendan by putting him in the jail cell for a few hours.


Brendan and I are in front of the Hiawatha grocery store that Brendan's parents used to own. It still had their old cash register and a lot of stuff inside.