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- 1. OUR SUMMER VACATION2009
UTAH
NEVADA
ARIZONA
CALIFORNIA
8-6-09 TO 8-19-09 - 2. LEAVING ON A JET PLANE
5:30 am ready to board!
A view from above-oooh! crop circles
Whens breakfast? - 3. Whos flying the plane?
- 4. Natural History Museum
Salt Lake City, Utah - 5. Dinosaurs,rocks,andfrogs.OH MY!
- 6. Park City, Utah
- 7. Amy & alexsWedding8-8-09
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- 9. SUNDAY MORNING BRUNCH
- 10. BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH
KENNECOTT COPPER MINE - 11. GIANT TRUCKS!
YES, THE TIRE BELOW IS THE SAME SIZE THAT IS ON THE TRUCKS IN THE PICTURES - 12.
- 13. MOAB, UTAH
- 14. HELLS REVENGE-OFF ROADING
Hell's Revenge trail exposes great expanses of "Slick Rock" (sandstone) with slopes so steep you will wonder if your tires can maintain traction. The very steep climbs and descents on the slick rock are not for the faint of heart and cannot be bypassed - 15. A steep hair-raising descent on a narrow ridge allows no
room for error left or right. As you start the decent your 4X4's
hood will drop a long way before you can even see the narrow ridge
top in front
Lions Back Rock
Dinosaur
tracks
PUSH ELI, PUSH! - 16.
- 17. Rafting the Colorado River
- 18. Sights from the river
Tow-truck rock
Walking tree
Colorado River - 19. SUNSET AT DEAD HORSE STATE PARK
At 6,000 feet above sea level you can see 360 degrees all around the Moab valley. 4,000 feet below is the canyon carved by theColorado River. After the sunset, we stargazed-we saw 10 billion stars, the Milky Way, and the Perseid meteor shower. - 20. Can you find
the big dipper? - 21.
- 22. Moab fault
La Sal Mountains
Layered rock
3 Gossips rock
Puppy rock
Park Avenue fin
Pertrified dunes - 23. Can you see the kids above?
Balanced Rock:
A boulder of slick rock Entrada Sandstone sits atop a pedestal of Dewey Bridge. The total height is 128 feet. The boulder is 55 feet and weighs 3,577 TONS! - 24. fun with perspective
- 25. Delicate Arch
Panorama point
Salt Wash
Petroglyphs of the Utes
Wolfe Ranch
Fiery Furnace - 26. Look at the earths layers in the rock
Skyline arch
Fred Flintstone rock
Delicate Arch-306 ft long
Fossil ofdino s tail
Resting on the Devils Garden Trail - 27. Zion National Park
- 28. Lower Emerald Pool Trail
Ave is eaten by a cave monster
Behind the waterfall
Lower Emerald Pool - 29. Middle Emerald Pool Trail
A tadpole with legs crawled out of the pond!
Wow! Thats cold water. - 30. Upper Emerald Pool Trail
Mom figures out how to carry water up the hills.
Avery islike a little goat scampering up the giant boulders with ease.
Yes! I made it to the top! - 31.
- 32. LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
- 33. LAS VEGAS BLVD.
THE EIFFEL TOWER LOOKOUT
DID SOMEONE SAY CROISSANT?
BELLAGIO - 34. Paris
NY NY
Venitian
Mom found the best BLING in Vegas to buy
Moving statues in the Venitian really creeped Roxy out!
NY,NY-rode the coaster - 35. LANDSAILING ON IVANPAH LAKE
Landsailing is the sport of moving over sand and land using a sail for propulsion by the wind.
A land-yacht is basically a sailboat that travels on small wheels on the surface of land.
Setting up the land-yacht
Last minute instructions before take-off
With the right size sail and small gust of wind you can go up to 55 mph!
Setting up the sail - 36.
- 37. Our Grand Canyon Adventure
Limo service to the airport really excited the kids. - 38. HELICOPTERING To
GRAND CANYON, ARIZONA - 39.
- 40. WestRim-SKYWALK over canyon-This glass bridge is suspended
4,000 feet over the Grand Canyon.
Lake mead boulder basin
Hoover Dam and new suspension bridge construction
Indian Pass-
the depression between the mountains is where early settlers would drive their wagonsin to the west. Only to be ambushed by Indians lying in wait. - 41. 4,000 feet below the rim into the Grand Canyon, we land
next to the Colorado River for lunch on Indian land.
Helicopter views
of the canyon. - 42. HOOVER DAM
- 43. Every state contributed rocks to build the dam.
When does the dam tour start?
The dam wall
Standing inside the dam wall,
looking out into river
Dam generators
New dam bridge - 44. We got the specialdam hats for the special dam tour
Dam observation deck
Looking straight over the edge of the observation deck, mom got this shot of the gates that open to let water into the river
Unfortunately, she alsolost her hat. It fell all the way to the bottom near the water
she found it with the ZOOM lens
(see black box)
Looks like I wasnt the only one to lose my damn hat! - 45.
- 46. SAN DIEGO,
CALIFORNIA - 47. A toasty fire kept us warm each night
We saw fireworks from Seaworld every night
Noah is great at
hide & seek! - 48. Seaport Village
- 49. U.S.S.MIDWAY
Into the brig with you scallywags
Eli, thats not a chair its a bomb - 50.
- 51. On board
the ship - 52.
- 53. After flying 5,402 miles,
Driving almost 1600 miles,
and 14 days of traveling,
what do you get - 54. THE END