Moab

Over presidents day weekend the Hopkins family was gracious enough to allow Ryan to invite his roommates, Melissa and I to Moab!! We drove down friday afternoon after all of our tests, classes, meetings, etc.  I was glad that I picked Derek's car because it only took us 3 hours where as the other car took 5. Blame it on Jake's direction skills. When we arrived they made us homemade hamburgers. So amazing. I am always so grateful for the homecooked meals, I tend to forget what it is like to eat food other than rice, beans, and pasta. After dinner we relaxed in the hot tub and got a good nights sleep.

Saturday morning we woke up to the smell of bacon and sausage, much like Micheal Scott off of The Office did, until he burnt his foot. We got ready, packed huge bags of Trail Mix and headed off to the arches. We first hiked to Delicate Arch which was amazing. We could not ave asked for better weather, low 50s, perfect.

 Jake Cha Harouny, the one man wolf pack

 Ed Tebowing

 We had to....its tradition

Now for my favorite photos of the trip: the dinner group's family photos. While taking these you would hear them say things like, "wow, we REALLY need girlfriends" or "what happened to us?". Nonetheless these guys are great and I love them.

after hiking delicate arch we stopped at some random place, got out, picked a random rock and had lunch then we made our way to Longitude arch.

 So background to this picture: Ryan falls asleep in the Strangest positions, and can stay asleep for hours. So we came across this branch and noticed that it looked like ryan when he sleeps so we took a picture of him and his doppleganger branch

 Ed giving his famous "angry piano finger" massages

That night we went out to eat at some Mexican restaurant and then topped of the night with scary stories. Sunday we went to church and then came home watched movies and played games like signs, the animal sounds game, and banana grams for hours. Such a good weekend and it has been hard transitioning back to the wear and tear of school. Well have a great week!