Monument Valley Trip

Over fall break, I took my family to Monument Valley with some of my siblings and their families.

 We had an indian placement brother, Eric Cly, who was from there.

Donny and Myriam bagpiped "Go My Son" at his grave.

(He was struck by lightning 8 years ago while selling indian jewelry)

 We had a bus tour- this photo is in front of a monument called "3 Sisters"

We hiked to the top of a huge Mesa- 

(it was one of my favorite hikes ever)

On the way there, we stopped at Goblin Valley and had a hay day!

As we pulled up and my kids looked out at the neat arrangements of rocks 

they saw a huge playground and gave a huge cheer in our van.

(They were as happy as if they had arrived at Disneyland)

They took off running- they climbed and played and explored all morning.

It was the perfect time of year to go because it wasn't hot!

On the way home, we stopped and hiked to Delicate Arch.

 During all our hiking, we had a "buddy system"

to keep track of all our kids.  

Myriam had to do a lot of hiking with Benson,

Sadie with Holland, Donny with Packer, and I was with Hunter.

(Hunter got a lesson here about not carving his name at a National Park!)

It was such a fun, quick trip.

Thanks to Lizzie and Charles for drumming it up and inviting us.