saturday
This trip has been a bit of a struggling experience... First, we packed up and left our house later than we planned on Saturday. Our sweet babe Olive slept in til 9am, which I loved.. But we were planning on her waking up at 7:30am, eating & going back down for her nap in the car around 9am. But we ended up having to do some last minute laundry (kill me), random menial tasks around the house (water plants, cook some food to bring for Liv..) and of course finish packing & getting ready. Blah! So we left our place at 1:00pm.
Olive was ready with her Moab onesie!
The drive down was pretty uneventful. Micah drove, I hunted on Etsy & eBay for stuff for Olive's birthday party, Zoey tried to get into the front seat the whole time, & Olive just sort of hung out.
When we finally got to Moab we hit up the art festival that was going on. I found a fellow "big cartel" company called Green Stitches that makes darling hand seen dolls & stuffed animals. I bought some super cute earrings from them!
We headed back to the car with a hungry baby & I started to feed her while Micah started the car. Or tried to start the car.
We had a dead battery.
Awesome.
Micah ran to grab someone to jump us (found a scary tough woman actually). We got the jeep running and headed to our hotel, not daring to turn off the car again. The battery is a little old so we just were going to have to grab a new one.
As Micah started unpacking our things at the hotel, I hung out with Liv in the car & Zo.
And we realized the hotel didn't have a crib for Livi.
Awesome.
So we hurried over to Alco (the most random local store ever. Love that place.) and actually found a pack n play. We also bought a new forward facing car seat for Olive kinda impromptu. But it was super cheap and exactly the kind we needed.
Because it was already 8:00pm (Olive's bed time) and we hadn't even eaten dinner, we decided to grab some food to go. We stopped at 'Los something' on Main Street. It used to be Cabo Grill but just recently changed & mexican food sounded pretty good. Micah ordered some chicken tostadas & I got a beef taco with chicken quesadilla. way yummy! I wish I had gotten more tacos! :(
sunday
The next morning we hit up the local Moab LDS church for a quick sesh. Then we changed, had lunch, & went to Tusher Tunnel. It's a jeeping trail that takes you to a tiny little hike that ends with a really cool tunnel (what?! no way) and has a beautiful outcropping and view of the area.
That tongue!
After jeeping around a little longer, we headed back into town. A super popular little stop is this massive sand hill.. like hugely tall & steep that people are always trying to reach the top. We pulled in, wanting to give Livi a little break from the carseat and to see if she'd crawl around in the sand.
Big fat nope.
She hated it haha poor thing. She was also tired and starving so it definitely wasn't a great tine to experiment. Olive did try to eat the sand though!
We left to get real food for our sad little babe & went to our favorite restaurant in Moab, Zax. We bumped into some friends and ended up eating dinner with them, getting to catch up with their lives while we stuffed our faces with pizza. mmmmm so good!
Once we were done, Olive was pretty much exhausted, so we headed back to our hotel and crashed.
monday
That morning we went to our favorite breakfast joint, Moab Diner. It's a 1950's style diner and they have amazing breakfasts. Big pancakes crispy bacon, really yummy waffles... it's the best.
Once we had sufficiently stuffed our faces, we piled into the jeep again and went south of town to Hunter Canyon. It's a really scenic dog friendly hike that Micah and I have yet to actually finish. Our first attempt was when I was pregnant & felt like I was going to go into labor (HA! I wish) so we had to bail early, and our second was with all of our little nieces & nephews so we didn't make it very far.
Today we were hellbent on seeing the end!
But first we needed some pics of Olive's and my matchy matchy headbands!
{ available at www.minimamaco.com }
gecko #1
Zoey is a freakin fish when we go on hikes and LOVES any excuse to jump into puddles or little rivers. Today was no exception.
oh my ovaries
sweet gecko #2
poppin a squat hahaha
THE END!!
It was actually really pretty. The hike ended with a small waterfall coming off a massive rock wall that was curved to give a lot of shade. It was a bit rocky and technical to get to the very end so if you bring kiddos maybe stop just short of the end. It was hard! But worth it for the shade and nice cool mist that lightly sprinkled us as we had a snack.
Zoey wanted to keep going!
After our hike, we shook the sand from our shoes, changed Livi into some non-sweaty clothes, & piled into the jeep. With a quick stop at the Mav to grab some goodies, we fueled up and left the trail.
On our way out of town we stopped by Moyo, the newest and actually, the ONLY frozen yogurt place in Moab. It is the "weigh and pay" style that Micah loves because he can act like a little kid and pile as many sprinkles, gummy bears, and M&M's in his bowl and feel like he's justified in paying $4 for it.
Til next time!!
xoxo
Mandi
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