sixteen hundred fifty miles later...

We decided to drive to Utah via dinosaur national park in Vernal. First of all, you get really excited that you are approaching Utah and you see signs for Dinosaur and you get excited and then you learn that Dinosaur is just a random little town in Colorado and you still have 45 miles to dinosaur national monument in Vernal. Anyway, I told Brad that Dinosaur national park was really cool so we stopped to see it. Not cool. The quarry place where you used to be able to see the bones is gone and there really isn't much there. So we just jumped back in the car and arrived in Salt Lake .


This is me with my cute niece Ellsie.Chloe and the seagulls at Sugar House park.
We let Chloe loose at this fun water area in Liberty Park. She didn't hesitate long before she just went for it. Nice that we forgot a change of clothes.
Just after this picture she layed on her tummy in the water.
Pure fun!

We made it to Utah after 4 days of sight seeing. Proudly, I only drove 6 of the 1650 miles. And during those short 6 miles, Brad managed to take a nap and totally demolish his own sunglasses by slamming them in the door and I almost received a ticket in a national park. True story.

5 weeks here we come!

10 days ago we drove to Utah. We visited some friends in Kansas City, stopped at this amazing art museum and were tempted to stop at one of the "tourist" stops along I-70.

We kept driving and saw the mountains. And we love the mountains. We stayed a couple of nights in this charming town called Estes Park, Colorado. The town had cute shops, fun restaurants and amazing views of Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park.
We spent one afternoon hiking around Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park with my brother. Like most of the country, Colorado is still experiencing colder temps and that's why you can see the snow.

Here we are at the top of the world. We just kept driving up and up and up and arrived in the cold artic tundra. As we drove we eventually arrived on top of the mountain in the distance of the picture of Brad and me. It was taken at 12, 400 feet. and moments after the pic was taken we saw a huge herd of Elk cross the road.

Here we are hiking up to the falls.