Sunday,
This morning around 10:00 we left Blanding Utah and after about an hour and a half
we arrived at the Moab Rim RV Park in Moab.
After getting set up, the first thing we did was go to Milt’s hamburger stand for Buffalo Burgers.
After lunch Patti packed up the dirty clothes and went into town to the laundromat . When she returned she told me that Mary and Tom and Leo (my sister, brother-in-law and their dog) had arrived in Moab and would meet us for dinner.
We had planned to go to a good Mexican restaurant that we know of but when we got there they were closed for Mother’s Day, so we went to a steak house that is connected to the motel where Mary & Tom were staying.
Monday,
Mary and Tom had never seen Canyonlands, so around 9:00 we all got into their TrailBlazer for a ride to Dead Horse State Park overlook and Canyonlands National Park (Island in The Sky).
We stopped at Dead Horse first for a look into the canyon.
From there we drove on to Canyonlands. We stopped at most of the overlooks along the way, took pictures.
We stopped for lunch at one of the picnic areas.
On the way back to Moab, we went down the Shafer Switchbacks and along the Potash road.
The Potash Road is easy, suitable for 2WD vehicles and very scenic.
There are a couple of large turnouts with views of the river.
Dispite what it looks like in the picture , Tom is not peeing in the river from the overlook.
Potash Road connects with Highway 279.
Along 279 are some petroglyphs so we stopped to check them out but no one thought to take any pictures.
We got back to Moab around 5:00 and went to the Mexican restaurant for dinner. This time it was open and we had an excellent meal.
Tuesday,
We met Mary and Tom at the Moab Diner for breakfast.
We decided to just take a short ride today because we are going to take a boat ride on the Colorado in the evening.
We went out the Kane Creek road which follows the south side of the river and stopped at the “Birthing Rock” to see the petroglyphs. 
We continued along the road a few more miles until we got to where it becomes a 4WD road that goes over Hurrah Pass.
Here is a view of Hurrah Pass from above from Anticline overlook..
We turned around there and headed for home.
We got back to Plan “B” around 1:00 and made plans to meet Mary and Tom at the "Colorado River by Night" boat ride place.
The trip up the river includes a dinner served at their dining room, at 7:00, then we were to board the boat and go up stream where they put on a light show in the canyon.
Tom was not feeling well so around 6:30 Mary called and told us that he would not be going with us but she was.
We got to the boat place in time for dinner and it was very good.
I ate too much!
Well, I haven’t mentioned it yet but the weather today has been less than perfect with cold high winds and occasional showers.
After dinner they got us all together and told us that the weather was too bad to do the trip and they would refund the money for the boat ride.
Mary had paid for the ride as a birthday gift to Patti so we went to the boat ride store so she could get her refund. fortunately she also got a refund for Tom’s ticket.
Wednesday,
Tom was feeling better this morning so we took a ride south of Moab to The Needles Overlook and Anticline overlook. It was a very nice drive on paved and gravel 2WD roads.
Views from the needles overlook;
Look at the left side of this picture. Do you see a sleeping warior?
From Needles Overlook we drove to Anticline Overlook. Along the way we stopped for lundc at an unnamed overlook.
Here is the view from the lunch stop.
Anticline overlook is on a point of land overlooking the colorado river and vallies
to the north ,
east,
and west.
Thursday,
Mary and Tom left today.
I have been spending most of this morning trying to make sense of the pictures and getting this blog published.
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