Scott (my brother) graduated!!!! From College Part 1! To learn more about Part 2 check out The Baird Affairs. To start off his graduation party adventure Nick and I made banners and cooked meat.
We then started our drive to Moab to convince Bailey that camping is fun. We got there at ten and spent the next two (2!) hours driving around to all the BLM campsites trying to find somewhere to put a tent. After we looked at the last one ("it's 3 miles down a dirt road with spots too small for campers so there's got to be an open spot, right?" wrong) we drove back down by Moab, pulled in the first campground we ran into and set up our tent in the first open spot. (we didn't camp there in the first place because we thought it was $30 more expensive than a BLM site. It turned out to be only $15 more expensive so not too bad).
But the ground was too hard to put stakes in so we had to be creative. At 1:00 AM. In the dark. I'm pretty proud of what we accomplished. We truly are our engineering parents' kids I guess.
This is the plastic wrap that was around the firewood we bought. Scott gets the credit.
Brian Nick and I slept on these two full size air mattresses. As you can see one of them is deflated. That happened about an hour after we went to bed (~3AM) so all of us had our heads and backs on the full mattress but our hips, legs, and feet on the hard, hard ground. Comfy.
After a hearty American breakfast at Denny's we went hiking in Arches National Park. It was free to get in :) hence the absurd campsite packed-ness the night before :( ... not worth it.
I found a rock.
Nick and Brian are so tough! They we're running around like boy scouts: climbing tall rocks, playing hide and seek, and, of couse, flexing their muscles a lot.
Like a normal person, I was tired.
We'll have to go back to Arches sometime to hike more. Next time we'll reserve a camping site, faithfully apply sunscreen, and go when it's not so hot.
But the best part of our trip is yet to come. Stay tuned....!
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