Deer on the trail at Dead Horse Visitors Center
A break on our mountain bike ride at Dead Horse
First time mountain biking- fun!
What had a super fun day doing some of the "must do's" of Moab. We started off going to the visitor's center of our park. We saw our first big wildlife sighting with a mule deer on the nature trail and Leah was loving that. Then we went to downtown Moab and did a little shopping. Tim knew one of the owners of a gift shop there so we stopped in and said hello and bought some t-shirts. After that it was off to spend our day on the Colorado River. We went with a tour company called Moab Adventure Center and they were fabulous. We did a whitewater trip that was 4 ½ hours and included lunch. The bus ride up was beautiful as we meandered through the red canyons next to the river. Then it was off on our trip! Our guide was Patton who is a high school English teacher in Vermont but comes to Moab every summer to lead rafting tours. He was so funny and interesting and we called him "General". There was a great family on our boat from Florida so we had so much fun talking and sharing with them. The river was tame with only a few class 1 rapids so most of the time was spent with water wars with the 4 other boats and families on them. Each boat had one of those 5 gallon buckets and the goal was to steal the buckets from the other boats and constantly declare war by filling the bucket with water and dumping it on the other passengers in the other boats. The kids had a blast with this…they also spent a ton of time in the water swimming and trying to steal those buckets off the boats. Oh, another interesting fact was that we passed on the bus and then floated by a big movie set. Johnny Depp was there filming The Lone Ranger that comes out next summer. It was really neat to see all of the trailers and the production that went on. General said Will Smith just finished filming a movie with his son called After Earth due out next summer as well. My movie lover Noah just thought that was the coolest thing ever! Another highlight was lunch which was at a winery on the river. We just floated to the shore and had a fabulous meal of BBQ, great fresh sides and cookies. It was delicious! It was really a fun time and the kids were just in heaven. When we came back to our campground…Tim and I decided to try the mountain biking trail at our campground. So off we went and that was a lot of fun. It was a 4 mile trail called the Intrepid trail that had a lot of dirt, slick rock and some sand. I was more afraid doing that than white water rafting but it turned out to be a lot of fun. We had beautiful scenery as we stopped and looked down into the canyon. Then it was back to camp for dinner and then an evening walk around the campground. We saw a fox! That was a first. We also saw another deer. It was a great day! Tomorrow we will be heading into the canyon that we keep looking at from our campground. It is at Canyonlands National Park. 44, 45, 47
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