Woke up really early, packed up the car and drove to arches before it opened. We spent some time in the visitors center learning about the arches formation ( the oceans flooding and evaporating leaving salt beds for miles piling sand on top Fromm erosion and wind. The sand hardened to rock and water eventually seeped through resolving the salt creating cracks in the rock that eventually gave way to form arches... They think....Of course this process took millions...

We woke up early even though we had nothing to do but relax because we couldn't take our eyes off of the view. It rained all morning and Olivia got frustrated and almost got us kicked out of the hotel with her tantrums! Eventually the sky cleared and we sat by the pool while Emma Hannah and Olivia swam and Aida read. We ate a good cold cut lunch that we made sure to finish by 2:30 so we could make sure to be dairy by 8:30 for s'mores roasting by the campfire. The...

Woke up bright and early to a gorgeous view in the campgrounds that we could not see last night. Our sight was on the green river with a gorgeous mountain view. We ate breakfast and packed up to get in a quick visit of the dinosaur quarry and visitors center as our plans were rearranged from our cancelled flight yesterday. The quarry was fascinating. We saw dinosaur bones 149 million years old left in the mountains they were found in preserved by a ancient river ...

Of course in true Hasson form this trip began late as we woke up at 3:00am to leave by 4 but fell back asleep till 4:15. We made it in the car by 4:30 and somehow to Laguardia airport with no time to spare. Our first flight went smoothly to Chicago but when we arrived our flight to Salt Lake was cancelled. Ronnie ran to reroute us and we ended up on a flight to Phoenix with a connection 3 hours later to Salt Lake. In the process Ronnie's chair got soaked from Ame...