Friday in Moab, Utah

 Today this is a labor of love at 6:30 am MT. Back to Thursday night, we went to see the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Practice in their Conference Center., which holds 21,000 people. There are 360 choir members and 110 in the orchestra. They were rehearsing for the Sunday service  and their next tour. The acoustics were perfect and the seats comfy.  Our hotel accommodations were at Little America which was very luxurious. Excellent food and wait staff. 

Now to Friday: We drove all morning, through canyons, grassland, etc. When it got too boring, Gene played a CD of the Ireland trip and we played Tori-Bond.  We arrived in Moab around 1:00 pm.  Lunch at Gloria’s which had a wrap-around porch. Along the top of the porch was a constant spray of mist and hanging plants, of course. Good food. After lunch, we were scheduled to go to Canyonland National Park but our long 56 passenger bus was not a good fit for that.  Change of plans. Arches National Park is just outside of Moab so we went there instead. As you can imagine, Arches has lots of red sandstone rock formations with many arches formed through years and years of erosion.  We would ride and then take short trail walks and photos.  The drive has a loop at the end where you turn around and com back the same way. We had just got out of the bus when it suddenly looked very stormy. We quickly got back in and drove away.  You could look back and see the rain pelting down.  It was after 6 when we got to the hotel which was a ways from downtown.  Those who wanted to, got back on the bus to go to dinner. We were suddenly hit by a sandstorm, followed by a powerful rain.  Change of plans. Decided to all go to the local brewery down the road instead of different places. When we arrived, it had let up a little so we dashed across rushing streams of water to get inside. Of course, our feet all got soaked. We felt grateful to find a place to eat and enjoyed the company.  Back at the hotel, I tried to get on the internet and couldn’t finally figured out that the storm had knocked out the internet.  Must dash off to Saturday’s adventures.