Memorial Day Weekend 2009

Memorial Day Weekend 2009

About a month ago we were sitting around looking at our calendar, trying to decide how to spend the long weekend. Mr. Sweetness had had a conversation with his dad about how he had always wanted to go to Canyonlands. He has been a big John Wayne movie fan for years. He wanted to see the landscape that so many of the movies were filmed.

My sweet husband had a very distinct feeling that we needed to take his Mom and Dad and go. We talked about timing. Southeastern Utah gets unbearably hot after May. If we didn't go for Memorial Day we would have to wait until about October. We felt that we better not wait. My wonderful father-in-law will be 85 in July. He has had cancer in his system for almost 20 years. He has been dealing with bone cancer for about the last 4 years. He is losing his stamina and his strength.

So, we hooked their trailer to our motor home(lovely site--so embarrassing for MissA) and away we went.

It was a great weekend. The weather was slightly overcast on Saturday--which was much better than the horrible rainstorm we drove in Friday evening.

We visited Arches national park on Saturday--It was spectacular!

On Sunday we went to Deadhorse State Park and Canyonlands National Park. The views were just breathtaking.

I was happy that some middle-aged bikers asked if they could take a picture of all eight of us-it was the only one with all of us!It was a great weekend-even when we got drenched hiking to landscape arch-it is a memory we will always remember! We are glad we didn't wait!