MOAB!!!!!!!!!

We left for Moab, Utah Friday afternoon. The reason for going to Moab this trip was due to Steve & his dad, Murray. They wanted to bike ride the famous Slickrock trail. So the past few weeks they have been riding their bikes and trying to get conditioned for this grueling ride. Luckily, there's a practice loop they did instead of the actual trail (because they might have died!!). They were both very proud of themselves and each other for their accomplishments.

We got down to Moab Friday night and we checked into our hotels. Steve & I are all for camping but because we going to be there for 2 nights we decided not to mess with all the camping gear and get a hotel room. We got the last room in our favorite hotel down there (Holiday Inn) so Steve's parents had to book a room at a different hotel. Let's just say that their room was GROSS! There was a weird smell, dirty towels & sheets, lumpy mattress, flat pillows, etc. The list just continues on how bad it was. Steve and I both felt pretty guilty since our room was a lot better than theirs. Anyway, after getting somewhat settled, we picked them up and went to our favorite Mexican joint in town, Fiesta Mexicana. They have really good food & drinks!! Yum..and so spicy! =) Our friends ended up being in Moab the same weekend so we met up with them for dinner which was fun.

Saturday morning...the parents had decided they weren't going to stay in their crappy hotel room another night if they didn't have to. They checked with the front desk at our hotel room and said they did have an open room for Saturday night. So they checked out of the other hotel and came over to our hotel! They were both very excited to be staying in such a nicer hotel!! So Steve & Murray loaded up their bikes and headed for Slickrock while us girls hung out in our room talking and watching TV. It was a very relaxing Saturday morning. Once the boys got back from their bike ride, we drove down towards the city center (which isn't very far) and had lunch. After our lunch and being stuffed, we thought it would be best to walk off our fullness and do a little window shopping. After shopping/walking for a few hours we made our way over to the visitor center where they show a 10 minute movie about Moab. After the movie we found animal puppets in the center that you can buy. So we all played with the puppets for a few minutes. Childish? No...it was fun!!

Steve & Murray on their bikes at the beginning of their bike ride on the Slickrock practice loop.

Steve & Murray after their ride on the practice loop. They both look pretty tired!

Steve looking like a dork...the sweater thing he was wearing went all the way to the ground. I think he's holding some kind of little girl toy. ..???

Sunday we woke up, had breakfast and packed up our stuff to get going on the day. We were going to head to Arches National Park but it was a unanimous vote that we'd rather come back down when we had more time. So we headed back to Slickrock because the boys felt they didn't have enough pictures. Elona (Steve's Mom) and I were the photographers while the boys posed on their bikes.

This is a picture of us after we got the truck packed up and ready to head back to Slickrock.

Here we are with the beautiful scenery behind us!

Here we are in Slickrock. What a cute picture of us!

Kind of a funny story, but this picture was taken of us at the visitor center in the middle of town. I thought the flowers were cute and there were these rocks to sit on..perfect for picture time!

We got home Sunday evening and Lisa, RJ & Reagan met us at Steve's parents house so we could hang out for a bit. We got to hang out with Reagan and she's SOOO cute! We even got to see her sport her cute sunglasses!

Thanks for such a fun weekend...Murray, Elona & Steve!