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Canyons and Arches

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ITS SUMMER!!!

Which for my family means that our big summer trip is coming up! We are traveling from sunny California all the way to Tennessee, making several stops along the way. Our first stop is Canyonlands National Park and Arches National Park.

The canyon lands were gorgeous! We climbed up to the top and everywhere there were steep drops forming endless looking canyons that seemed to go on forever. Even though it was sunny a nice breeze kept us cool. The steep drops terrified me, but that didn’t keep me from looking over the edge to see how far up we were. When I knew we were going to canyonlands I expected dry, ugly desert, but once we arrived I was shocked with how beautiful everything really was. Part of the time I also felt like I was in the Disney movie “Cars”. After the day was almost over we headed back to Moab where our hotel was. Before calling it a night, we headed over to CanyonLands by Night and Day boat tours. It took us on the Colorado River through the canyon. Our tour guide was hilarious and made the tour very interesting. Using a laser pointer he showed us the cracks in the canyon that formed faces if you used your imagination just a little. Then once it got dark we were able to see so many stars! We even saw the Neowise comet and the International Space Station!

Canyonlands!!

The next day we visited Arches National Park. From the tour before we learned that there are over 1,000 arches, but only around 200 are named (these are rough estimates). So this became a sort of scavenger hunt for us looking all around for any arches we could find. We also visited Balancing Rock and some of the more well-known arches like “Spectacles Arches” “Keyhole Arch” and we were able to see “Delicate Arch” from a view point. The arches are all so beautiful. Huge rocks tower over you forming graceful yet fragile arches that took sooo many years to form. I must say all the arches were very photogenic making it easy to take good pictures of them.

Now we are headed out of Utah and into Colorado for some more adventures!

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FOOD

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Every time we move we always have a checklist of sorts of what we need to find in our new home. 1) A house. 2) a school for me and my sister. 3) a church. But there is another necessary item that must be found. Food. So here is my list of the best places to eat all around the U.S!

Gulfport, Mississippi: Tony’s brick oven pizzeria- has great pizza and they let the kids play with some raw pizza dough while you wait for the food. I went there when I was really little so that’s what stood out to me.

Florida: Gainsville– Big Lou’s New York Style Pizza (can you tell we really like pizza?) only get a slice cause their slice of pizza is HUGE; Harry’s- great fish tacos and other seafood.

Pensacola– Sonny’s BBQ- chain restaurant in the south but amazing ribs and sweet tea; Wild Honey- delicious frozen yogurt with lots of toppings to choose from; The Flying Biscut- great breakfast food, I recommend the grits.

Jacksonville: The Metro Diner- you have to try the stuffed french toast!

Kansas: Homer’s Drive in- really yummy chocolate malts and hamburgers; Glace- amazing ice cream!; Empanada Madness- really good coke and arapes; Stone Canyon Pizza- more delicious pizza.

California– Waypoint Cafe- delicious breakfast, and is located near an airport which makes it also a cool place to eat; Fat Sal’s- all those gigantic burgers and milkshakes that you see on social media are created here and is super delicious! Pizza Man Dan’s- yummy thin crust pizza; Mika Sushi- love their tempura shrimp, soup, and