Monument Valley Day Trip

Yesterday we took a day trip to Monument Valley, UT (actually it is in the Navajo Nation) because Kyle was off work and the boys are on spring break. Kyle's work trip to Alaska was cancelled because of the Volcano Eruption. It was cold and windy, so we stayed in the car most of the time.

These rocks were called the three sisters, but the boys started to call them the three brothers with Landon in the middle.

Here are the boys at the View Hotel there with the "mittens" in the background.

Here are some more monuments. We drove around, but didn't hike because of the cold. We took a lunch and picniced in the back of the suburban.

Here are the "mittens". If you look close you can see why. They look like two hands in mittens.

Here is John Wayne's cabin at Ghoulding's Lodge. He lived here while shooting one of his movies. I didn't realize how many movies had been made in monument valley (mostly westerns). They have a trading post, motel and museum here.

Here are the boys being goofy while I am trying to get their picture.

Goofy boys! It almost looks fake in the background, but it's real!

If you look really close you can see the boys standing out on this ledge in the middle of the picture. They look like ants here. It is a huge, vast desert.

This one is Elephant Butte. I think it looks like an elephant too.

I love this picture with the snow. It was snowing when we left home, but we thought it would be gone by the time we got there. Well it wasn't, but it did melt during the day.

Maybe we'll go back in the summer. Then again, I would rather 40 degrees than 100 degrees.