The Big Trip (Part 1)

We've been home for a week now and I haven't written about our "Big Trip". Shame on me. We were gone for two weeks, but since it takes ONE FULL WEEK to get packed up and ready to go and ONE FULL WEEK to unpack and do laundry, it seems more appropriate to call it a month-long trip!!

2500 miles of Utah, New Mexico, Colorado & the tippy-top corner of AZ
(at least 500 of those miles were in "construction zones"-- SLOW MOVING!!!)


Part 1 Monticello, Four Corners, Cortez


MONITCELLO, UTAH

We left our house Monday morning (June 29th) and headed down to Monticello. We had a picnic on the library lawn, played on the playground, bought nine "discarded" library books for $.50 each (bargain!) and stopped to see the new temple. Very pretty! Ate some yummy snow cones.




FOUR CORNERS

So my sister Michelle warned us about Four Corners. "You drive out to the middle of nowhere and stand in line to take a picture. You're hurried because there are people waiting to take their picture. It's hot & dusty." Well, that about sums up Four Corners.... but at least we got to see it for ourselves! :)

Caleb is at the end of the line, looking happy.
This is the line of people from all over the country lining up to take their picture of the only place in the US where four states touch. And, thanks to GPS, they've just recently discovered that the actual "four corners" of AZ, NM, CO, UT are about one mile away. But hey, this was surveyed a couple of hundred years ago so I think they did a pretty good job to be even that close!

Caleb in all four states at once!

Lukey in all four at once.


Adam, burning his bum on the ground.


So, if you haven't been there.... don't worry you aren't missing much. Just photo-shop your family here and save the trip! :)



CORTEZ, COLORADO

I was playing around with the panoramic feature on my camera while we were stopped out in the middle of nowhere for road construction. This is just about 5 minutes from Four Corners. See... MIDDLE OF NOWHERE! :)


We camped that night in Cortez in a campground and let the boys swim and play. A fun first day of our BIG TRIP.