{"id":702,"date":"2015-10-17T07:42:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T07:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carla.romere.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2016-06-30T19:42:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T19:42:07","slug":"arches-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carla.romere.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Arches National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we toured Arches National Park in Moab, Utah. It was absolutely stunning. The colors, the appears-to-be-physically-impossible rock formations, and the arches themselves were mind boggling. There were many times I told Molly some of them looked as if God had been playing tiddlywinks or building with Legos. The day was phenomenal.<\/p>\n

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Molly made friends with a mountain goat!!<\/p>\n

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Many of the arches and formations had names given to them because of their resemblance to said names. Yes, many of them absolutely did look like their namesakes!!<\/p>\n

The Three Penguins!!<\/strong>
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The Baby Arch<\/strong>
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This one didn’t really have a name, but to me it looks like an alligator about to eat a rock.<\/p>\n

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The Sheep<\/strong>
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These next two were called The Fiery Furnace<\/strong> because they turn brilliant red at sunset.<\/p>\n

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Of course, I had to take pictures of more raggedy, dead trees.<\/p>\n

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Sand Dune Arch<\/strong> named for the very sandy areas we had to hike through to get to the arch itself.<\/p>\n

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We finished off the day with another beautiful sunset.
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Today we toured Arches National Park in Moab, Utah. It was absolutely stunning. The colors, the appears-to-be-physically-impossible rock formations, and the arches themselves were mind boggling. There were many times I told Molly some of them looked as if God had been playing tiddlywinks or building with Legos. The day was phenomenal. Molly made friends with a mountain goat!! Many of the arches and formations had names given to them because of their resemblance to said names. Yes, many of…<\/p>\n

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