Greetings from Arches National Park

Yesterday was a day of  laundry and resting.  We had dinner out and walked around downtown Moab.  Everything went well till we drove home and saw the blue lights in the side mirror.  Oh no....what did we do now.  We had no tail lights!   Chris tried all evening to find the fuse that was blown with no success.  This morning we got up early to drive to the Ford dealer.  A wonderful young man took care of us right away.  He checked all the fuses but they were all good.  He was perplexed!  Then he started looking for a second fuse box.  The night before I researched the problem on the internet.  So I told them there were two fuse boxes under the hood...not one.  It was hard to find but they kept looking till they found it and found the fuse.  We asked for the bill but George did not charge us.  Unbelievable!  What a nice young man.

We left the dealer and headed to Arches National Park.  The weather prediction was for rain but since this was our last day we took a chance.  The park was packed because today was free entry.  We could not find parking at any of the view points.  We headed to the very end of the park in hopes of hiking a trail there.  We were lucky.  We started the hike with dark clouds overhead.  I said to Chris, "if we hear thunder we need to head back" .  He agreed.  Two  minutes later we heard thunder.  But we trekked on because there was no lightning.  Glad we did.  The trail was almost empty and we had a wonderful hike.  We saw landscape arch which is over 300 ft  span.  We alo saw double arches but my favorite was pine tree arch.  It is the one were chris and I had our picture taken without the backpacks.  This arch was on a side path.  We walked into this tiny cove that opened into the arch.  There was a log that provided us a place to sit and rest.  No one was there.  It was beautiful and so quiet.  I just wanted to stay forever.  A couple our age came along and Chris offered to take their picture.  Then there were two young men that came along and I offered to take their picture.  However by now the sky was darkening and the arch would not show up.  One of them showed me some tricks on the iPhone to lighten the picture.  I got a great shot and they took a picture of us.  The rain had stopped so more people came to my sacred spot and before you knew it we were taking everyone's pictures in front of the arch.  I thought we would be there all day.  Finally we saw a break so we headed out.  You may see in the pictures a rock climber and a man repelling.  The pictures did not upload in order this time so it is a bit confusing,

Tomorrow we head to 8:00 church and then to MesaVerde to view Indian Cliff Dwellers.

Peace to all my family and friends,  Barbara