Spring Break: Arches

After a breakfast of champions (gross!) we headed back to Arches for a final day of Southern Utah hiking.

We started at the Courthouse Wash, which is a short little hike, but we made a happy discovery as we hiked.  We bumped into the subject of one of our favorite paintings.  The Kathy Stats hanging above our fireplace.

There it is.  Our Kathy Stats.  I had no idea it was in Arches.  I'd always thought it was a painting from Canyon De Chelley.  Pretty cool:

Next we took the dirt road (it felt really long on the terrible road) to the Klondike Bluffs area to hike past the Marching Men to Tower Arch.  We did this once when Clara was a little puppy and Pop-Pop was with us.  It was beautiful.  The puffy clouds and perfect weather made it even better:

The last 1/3 of the hike is in sand.  Which is really not that easy:

Some RRL's did some exploring above and 

behind the arch. This arch had a cathedral like feel:

Our last stop was Broken Arch:

Clara is a RRL 2.0.  Clinging to the rock she climbed right up:

The climbers wanted to go up top:

Such a beautiful day (photo credit to Lu):

With a potty stop we were on our way back to Provo (so sad to leave that place but at least we had more fun in store):

That evening Rob and I met up with Emily and Weston at Black Sheep Cafe in Provo for dinner.  It was so fun to see them and catch up.  Mad I didn't take a picture.