Indiana or Bust, Part 4

We left Nauvoo and took the longer way home, although it definitely wasn't the longest way possible and we were able to see different country side. On the way out we drove through Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, and finally Indiana. We returned through Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, and back to Utah.

While in Missouri we stopped at Adam-Ondi-Ahman, but passed by Liberty, Independence and Far West so we could make it to Denver for the night.

On our last day we figured, what's a little detour that would only had a few more hours in the car? We left Denver and headed home through Vail. And since I'd never been to Arches, we got lunch in Moab then went search of red rock.  Chod asked Bentley if he could find a red rock, B's reply "No. They're all camouflaged!"

Here, Chod is teaching the boys about erosion.

Lincoln could not wait to climb these rocks.

Every time he found a rock of interested he would scream, "I want to climb THAT rock." It was basically torture for him, except for this little climbing excursion. He would have spent all day climbing.

On our way to the Delicate Arch lookout it started raining. People running out told us to turn around.

We obeyed, put not before we were caught in the torrential downpour.

The boys did fantastic in the car. Aside from the frequent potty stops! It was so much better than I had planned. Even Lincoln, who gets car sick and hates his car seat did amazing. We returned home without ever turning on a movie. And although we packed iPads they didn't see much use-maybe an hour from each boy. They did really well without any screen time, but I was sure thankful for a 3G connection most of the trip (Wyoming and Kansas your 3G could use some improvement). We streamed Pandora most of the way and I was able to Google and report the history of towns as we passed them. It was a fantastic trip that was chock full of memory makers, we saw a lot of country, and got to see Deid, Chris and that cute baby too!