On the last day Nate and I raced the clock to get everything cleaned up and packed into the car by 10:00. We had to get Nate to work by 2:00, so there was not a lot of leeway. The kids helped a TON. That made me happy. The boys spent a lot of the morning looking for lizards and ended up catching this hideous beast of a bug that everyone was pretty fascinated by. Then they caught yet another lizard. Once they named them, I knew my vote to leave them in the National Park and not illegally removing them was going to be vetoed. We ran around the campsite to take a few last pictures of our favorite places:
We sadly said our goodbyes to everyone and got in the car. Two seconds later Nate realized his wallet was missing. This was NOT good. He needed several things out of his wallet to get us home and him to work without a badge. This was a little stressy. We ended up spending about 45 minutes unpacking things, going through tent pockets (yes, the inside ones), rummaging through bags and boxes... scouring the bathroom and the car... it was nuts! We said several prayers, with the kids and without. Then Nate had a light bulb and remembered putting it in the pocket on the back of his seat while getting Jack in the day before. Ahhh. What a huge relief that was!!! We were minutes away from calling Wendy's or the Visitor's Center or ANYWHERE we were so desperate. So we lost a lot of time, but we were so blessed to find it. We made sure to thank Heavenly Father.
The ride home was great. I finally got pictures of some of the cool things we'd seen everyday on our drives through Arches. Some of them are way too cool for these pictures to do them justice. Kind of a bummer, but also not- just means we'll have to go back.
First camping trip of the Summer was a success.
(we did however forget to dye our white shirts with the red sand. We'll have to use them for something else)
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