Arches National Park

We went to see the Arches National Park today. It was a great experience.  But can you say HOT... thus the sunny color for today.  Have you noticed the color change each day?  I have attempted to coordinate the color to the place or to a feeling.
  It was 95 degrees quite a bit of the day today.  Thank God for AC in the truck.  Most of the park we could see from the truck, but we did make a couple of short hikes to see some of the arch formations.  We all set out to see the Delicate Arch formation.  We didn't know EXACTLY how far it was.  In the heat and with walking problems, N and P only went a short way, but J and K decided they wanted to make the trek.  They returned a half hour later saying they still had a long, difficult and uphill hike to make.  They decided to turn around. Great attempt! 
This place is unbelievable!  We left about 9:30 this morning.  We didn't arrive back to the camper until 4:30.  It was 7 hours of amazingly spectacular views.  We had heard from our Sue that Moab, UT was one of her favorite places.  I can surely see why.  Every curve of the road revealed something wonderful.  Several of the rock formations have names given for their shape.  There were The Three Gossips, Balanced Rock, Delicate Arch, Landscape Arch, etc.  The Park Visitor Center suggested we look for shapes and name our own formations :)  We made a few feeble attempts.
We had made reservations to do a dinner/ Colorado River boat evening ride complete with light and sound show projected on the huge rock walls that line the river.  We all really enjoyed that.  And we had the bonus of a full moon.  It was beautiful. We are all thankful we have the opportunity and the ability to make this wonderful trip.
Tomorrow we're off to Canyonlands National Park.  Supposed to rain :(  Hope we get to see what we came to see.  At least it's supposed to be Cooler :)