beautiful weekend

We enjoyed a wonderful trip to Tropic for the Memorial Day weekend. We even took a couple of extra days off so we could really enjoy ourselves. The whole Burbidge family was there--even better! Here are a couple of the highlights. (Mom--be sure to click on the scrapbook pages to open them :)

The Dinosaur Tracks: We drove out to this very cool place in the Grand Staircase National Monument where there are dinosaur tracks all over this sandstone outcropping. Our family had been once before, but Claire and Coleman were too young to remember. It is so amazing because there are no signs telling you it's even there, let alone telling you to stay off. We walked all over them, trying to figure out what had happened. Our highly trained scientific minds ;) concluded that this was some kind of watering hole because there are many tracks in lines like the animals were walking to a destination. Then there are areas where there are tons of tracks all together, crossing and on top of each other. It's really hard to tell what you're seeing in some of the pictures, but trust me, it's cool. My favorite are the smaller tracks that seem to have the mark of a tail dragging through them. Amazing!



Upper Calf Creek Falls Hike: This was an incredible hike that no one but Dixie had done before. From the top you can't imagine the lush oasis that is hiding at the bottom of the canyon. It was so beautiful! It was a pretty strenuous hike and all the kids did amazingly well. The Burbidge family raises great hikers! Anson had to hike out without his pants since they were wet and rubbing him. Very cute.




I took these pictures on the drive out of the Calf Creek area. This is all in the Grand Staircase area. It is such gorgeous country! You can see parts of the road we were on. A part of the road that you can't see right here follows a ridge that drops off on both sides--amazing!