moab, i am in you: part two (image heavy)

So after our day of rafting and sight-seeing, we decided we NEEDED good grub (and beer). We'd overheard the Italian's on our rafting crew talking about Woody's Tavern and The Moab Brewery. The tavern was very quaint and retro, so we had a drink there, then went to the Brewery for the food. Decided to walk a bit on Main Street before heading home to crawl into bed. We were go, go, go from 8am, it was time to rest.


Woody's Tavern

Woody's Tavern

The next morning we went out for breakfast at Love Muffin Cafe. VERY diet friendly if you're looking for that sort of thing on vacation (which I was after the onion rings and beer from the night before). I would recommend the Wescial Burrito (scrambies, potatoes, bacon and green chiles, man). We ate and sipped their coffee there before wandering a few miles to Arches National Park.



Delicate Arch

Man, I cannot even describe it there, the photos do nothing justice until you see how huge these things actually are. GO TO MOAB RIGHT NOW.

On the way back, we stopped at that really creep cemetery I mentioned yesterday. Honestly, we stayed for maybe five minutes, it was entirely too eerie, gave me the heebies you guys. Plus there was a sign that said "Rattlesnake Area" and I'd rather not mess with that.





Mom? I got you a rock.

And that is it, I can't believe it's over, and I'm already planning on heading back next year.

Before I go, a few pictures of the vineyard.




Oy.

moab, i am in you: part one (image heavy)

(To view all photos, you can go here, I'll share some of my favorites in the storyline as well!)

So, Sunday morning after a lovely yoga session, we dropped the doggies off at selective family members abodes and hit the road toward Southern Utah. On the way down we saw a few things of note: a haunted cemetery, a fire being put out by helicopters carrying water, and desert. That third was a given, eh?

First we had to stop in Helper and see the worlds largest Coal Miner...



We arrived in the Moab area around 7pm and had about an hour and a half to kill before our dinner reservation. The ranch we stayed at was beyond awesome, Zack couldn't have picked a better place. We were maybe 50 feet from the Colorado river (which we'd be rafting down tomorrow morning) if we were laying in the bed in our room. It was crazy. There was even a little lizard hanging out on our patio, but he scurried away before I could grab him. I want all animals to like me, and I was already missing the doggies.




We had dinner in the Dining Hall of our ranch, they had a winery on site. It was amazing. We ordered a Chardonnay Blend that could not have been more heavenly. I had a grilled portobello mushroom, Zack had a blackened Wahoo fish (that sounds fun, I hate fish) and we enjoyed a lightning storm over the cliffs.


The next morning we woke at dawn to head out to Takeout Beach to meet our rafting group. Many Italians and then...us. Unfortunately there are no photos of the rafting because I was too afraid to take my camera. But lets just say, I swam in the river, I didn't fall out on any of the rapids and I got burnt to a crisp. One day I'll learn that even on overcast days, I still need sunscreen.


After that we were starved so we went back to the ranch to enjoy our leftovers. We spend the rest of the day driving through Dead Horse Point and Canyonlands and snapping many photos and videos, and making friends with more lizards.




Jordan, like Mckayla, is not impressed.

Tomorrow I'll recap the evening as well as the adventure home...trust me there are some gems in there.

For the record...

Our soundtrack? Noel Gallagaher's High Flying Birds. Yessssss. Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 especially.

i'm back again, like the way that eminem is back, only different

I don't know what is up with that title so whatever.

I will get with uploading all the photos from our Moab adventures (there were plenty of both, I assure you, we had a rockin' time), but for now I will tease you with these few...

See y'all tomorrow. Gotta watch Breaking Bad and The Newsroom like asap, you guys.

into the great wide open

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I am peacing out for a few days to head to grand ol' Moab, UT. Pray I don't die on a freaking raft, you guys.

Monday I will not recap anything, sorry for any inconvenience. However I will be back the next week with episode two of Roswell (haven't you been dying for that?).

All should be well, be back next week, though scheduled posts will flood your inbox until then (except the recap cause that takes a lot of time and I usually wait until the last minute...gold medal for procrastination).