The Adventures of Sock Monkey, Odus, and everyone else who comes along Volume #4

   Gah! I'm so behind on posts! This is for, umm, the day before yesterday,  maybe? Yah. Tuesday's post. So, let's quit dawdling and get to work! (Man, I sound like my dad...) Okay. Anyway, we started hiking in the morning at Arches in this really nice hiking spot called the Fiery Furnace (it's not as hot as it sounds). You have to get a permit,  but it is epic as long as you get a private tour. Much better that way. Again, we took a Moab Adventure Center tour and it was so worth it. There were cracks so tight that the adults had to push with their shoulders and knees and propel themselves up and through while skinny kids like me and another girl who was on the tour basically walked through. I have a new standard for when someplace is too tight. When my ears touch the walls of a crack in the rock, it's too small. I ran into one of those...

People call it.. the Lemon Squeeze..

Maybe Sock Monkey is related to gophers. Always popping up everywhere...

But that's beside the point. We walked under an arch called Walk-Through Arch because you, duh, walk through and then climbed up to another arch that I nicknamed Toothpaste Arch because you have to squeeze through. Get it? It was just the right size for me, which meant it was too small for most other people.

It's kinda dark but Sock Monkey's on the left side

All in all, it was a great hike. I highly suggest it but get a private tour. The ranger-led walk doesn't show you all the stuff and is way too short. Afterwards, we hiked Delicate Arch, which is that arch you associate with Utah. Yah. The one that is standing all alone. We hiked it and it is so so hot (not hot.. what's the right word... there we go!) burning hot! My mom says that she told one of the couples leaving to tell me and my dad to not come but I was almost there and didn't get the message anyway. But I made it.

Welcome to Utah, people of earth and intergalactic space! 

Also, what the pictures don't tell you was that number 1, the arch is tilted (the left side is higher) and number 2, there is a football field sized pit to the right of the arch. Also, while I was waiting for my dad to come, I made some rock piles that looked suspiciously like Delicate Arch, so I guess they were arches with arrows saying either "It's this way!" or "Hurry up, Dad! I'm waiting! Don't be a slow coach!". Either, or. As for hot, it felt like walking on the sun but, hey, if you're from the Southwest, it's like every single summer day. Totally normal. Turns out my dad didn't get to my little rock sign majigys so I kind of made them for nothing. Nothing, save the pictures. See below.

Think the hiking stick is just a tad bit big, huh?

So, I should be done so questions or comments or whatever, check out the comment board. Thanks for reading, folks!