We miss St. Louis so we visited the arch(es)

Last night we were window shopping on the main street in Moab and we came across a book shop. So we browsed through a few books, one of our favorites was Back country Betty: How to survive the wilderness in style. Well we must have been inspired when we woke up this morning because the first thing we did was take a venture to the general store here at the KOA and pick out beautiful matching MOAB tshirts. As if the tshirts weren't tacky enough on their own, we decided to fringe the arms and to both wear them today. So you will have to view the pictures on picasa. We were inspired to wear matching tshirts by one of the couples we met on the night cruise.

Katie's embarrassing moment of the day:
While walking to the bathroom to take a shower with clean clothes and my shower bag in hand while talking on the phone with Jenna, Katie heard a loud honking noise from behind, she quickly turned around to find a van with Illinois plates sitting there with male driver pointing to the ground, to Katie's dismay, there lay her underwear on the gravel road. How embarrassing... Of all things to drop.

It was a sweltering hot day in the Arches national park in Moab Utah today. So naturally we decided since it was our last day of real outdoor adventure that we should make the most of it. So we did the most hiking today than we have done our entire trip. Katie's knee from the fall two days ago, was a bit sore, so Lauran acted as a nice cane. Apparently the heat wasn't stopping anyone. We met a nice elderly couple while hiking up to broken arch. The couple was probably in their 70s. The man was walking with a bit of a limp on flat ground and he was using a single hiking stick. While we were talking to the wife sitting down below the arch, the old man decided to act as though he was 20 and take his single hiking stick and bum leg and hike up the huge incline that we did not even think about climbing up. We looked at each other as he walked up thinking "OMG, talk about being in the right place at the right time". Meanwhile his wife was just talking our ears off. 20 minutes passed and we were still talking to the wife as we observe the husband coming down the rock. He starts tapping his hiking stick on this single piece of wood to support himself to get down. We took one look at that situation and insisted we help him down. He denied the help until we informed him that we were nurses. Then we both took his hand and helped him down. THANK GOD HE DIDN'T BREAK A HIP. After we got him down he joked that he could have done that much easier fifty years ago. We laughed out loud with him while silently recovering from our mild heart attacks.

After an exhausting but beautiful day we had a nice dinner at the Moab Brewery in town. While sitting in the Bar Section we were talking and Katie noticed a cute boy at the bar. She asked Lauran if he was sitting alone or what? Lauran looked over and quickly noticed that the "cute guy at the bar" was the "cute banjo playing ranger from the park". What a small world. Unfortunately he finished his meal before we were able to serenade him with our banjos.

Now we are going to get to bed early so we can wake up at 430 in the morning and drive to Carson City Nevada.