1st Day in Moab

We decided to start our vacation in Moab on a new hike we haven't tried before called Morning Bridge. It was just our family and the Gockens. The Ricks' and Arnolds' didn't arrive until later. It was very hot outside, and Lindsay didn't make it very far on her own. Luckily, Jaron offered to carry her a lot of the way on his shoulders. What a good big brother!
After about 1 mile of hiking, everyone was hot and tired and kept asking to get in the stream we were hiking next to. The kids had a blast in the water. Lindsay perked right up from her exhaustion, and Natalie looked so much better. She was so red over her entire body before she got wet. This is Jaron pretending to eat a crawdad. The kids spent 90% of their time in the water catching crawdads. Those crawdads were everywhere and we had to be careful where we walked so we wouldn't step on them. The kids had and absolute blast!
This is Jerry and Brayden on the Morning Bridge hike.This is where we entered the stream. We walked a bit down stream before we just sat around and let the kids play. The girls had so much fun lying on their tummies enjoying the water!

This is the beautiful area we decided to stop and enjoy the water for a while.
Moab is all about getting a little messy along the way. We took pictures to have proof.
After hiking Morning Bridge, and going to a lot of the gift shops in town, we headed to the swimming pool in our campground. The kids swam until closing, and we all hit the sack exhausted from our first day of vacation.