We took the kids to Goblin Valley.  It was amazing.  Like we were on another planet.  The kids kept asking if this really was still Utah.

There are about 100 pictures to follow, you have been warned if you want to turn back now. This is the only place I am recording my children’s childhood, so i pack in the photos. 


It was our first road trip with The Switch.  Perfection.  Kids filled the entire time with Zelda and Mario Kart.  

We had never been and heard it was the perfect place for little kids.

All recommendations were correct.  It was amazing and you can’t beat a rock playground to explore.  
  

It was HOT.  Like just over 100 degrees. 

The kids were rockstars, drank tons of water and took breaks in whatever shade could be found.  


At one point we couldn’t find Miles.  He was hiding in the shade of 3 hoodoos and refused to come out for fear he would not find shade ever again.  

Crew and I are always bringing up the rear. He is the slowest hiker in history.

To make the trip even awesomer Paul reserved a yurt in the campground there.  

Kids were in love and want to sell our house right away to move in forever.

Chasing lizards

It didn’t hurt that it had an AC unit, so we took advantage and took a break while we waited for it to cool down a little bit.  

  

Then the rest of the day was spent exploring around The Yurt.  

So much time was spent watching the red ants and seeing how long it took them to take beef jerky back to their holes.  They were seriously amazing.  

Surreal right? 

Hours upon hours were spent out here.  

This chair was quite popular.  

After we put Crewby to bed we got to climb even higher.  


The highlight for me was seeing the stars that night.  We let M&M stay up and it worked out perfect we had just been to the planetarium.  Seriously, I don’t even remember seeing a night sky like we did.  Something I hope they remember.  

That was just day 1.  

On to day 2. 

Another 100 degree day in the desert.  This was the first time all the kids finished their entire bladders of water.  

We hiked Little Wild Horse Canyon.  This was the entrance.  It was a good sign that this was going to be pretty amazing.  

There was lots of breaks and lots of hiding in shade. 




But once we hit the narrow part of the slot canyon we could not keep up with these kids. 



It was so surreal.  And kids had a blast running around and climbing up the walls of the canyon. 



Luckily we got there early and it wasn’t too busy, because it’s a bit tricky to pass in there.  We did get to see and meet people from all over the world though.  It was cool for the kids to see how lucky they are to live so close to such cool places.  

Best people to explore new places with. 

Can’t beat a few days completely disconnected from everything and getting to be out in this beautiful world Heavenly Father has given us.  It’s good for the soul.