Spontaneity Pays Off - Day 6.5

We got back to our tent camp after dinner, planning on relaxing outside for the rest of the evening until bedtime, but at about 745 I realized that we were really close to Dead Horse Point. I remembered going there as a child- probably Faith’s age- with my Grampy and Grammy and on one particular picnic my Grampy carved Kim’s and my initials into a tree there. I didn’t think we’d actually find that tree, but it was so close to sunset and we were just hanging out so…. Yep, we jumped back in the car (my wonderful husband barely complained) and we headed up to Dead Horse Point just in time to watch the sun going down on one side of the canyon and the full moon rise on the other side. The kids scrambled over boulders, chased lizards,  and tried to throw rocks into the Colorado River below. It was pretty close to perfect.