arches
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We almost skipped Arches National Park. I figured once you've seen one arch you've seen them all. It seemed pretty boring. We're staying in Moab for a couple days because Emma and I want to go to Canyonlands National Park and Braden and Olivia want to go UTVing. Since we're so close we figured we'd just do a drive through Arches.
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A drive through turned into getting out to take some photos at Balanced Rock.
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Which turned into lets do this short hike over to those arches.
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Which turned into lets climb around all over these rocks for over an hour.
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Turns out both girls said it was their favorite park of the trip. Guess it's a good thing we didn't skip it.
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Another National Park means another Junior Ranger badge. This makes 12.
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