Sonntag, 13. März 2011

Vacation ~ Part 6 ~ Arches National Park

Our next stop on our road trip was the Arches National Park in Utah. It was soo impressive to see all those Arches which are made by nature. Actually it is kind of unimaginable when you think about what the nature made over the past hundred thousend years.

The first arche on our way to the national park.

Germany 6946 miles O.O

What an amazing view!!!

I have no idea how that works out but it does!


My little sister made her own little "stone wonder"

No stop on our road trip without a picture :D

It is soooo dry there


The first arche we hiked up to.

Still an amazing view!!!

Second one we hiked up to. I liked it better because on the other side was this amazing view on some other arches.

Pretty awesome what nature did there. Just look how small the people in comparison with this arche are.

There are those "little" stones in there... Just imagine they fall down O.O


Thought this was kind of funny with this cute little arche in the big one :D

Ya top that :D

Dienstag, 1. März 2011

Vacation ~ Part 5 ~ Mesa Verde

Welcome in Colorado!!!

On our way to Mesa Verde :)

Gorgeous view!!!

The "caves" where the native's lived in

actually pretty impressive what they built there!!!



There are still paintings at the walls.

The biggest "community" of all the "cave houses"

Vacation ~ Part 4 ~ Monument Valley + Four Corners

And again ... dessert... and dessert... ya well....


 
Monument Valley ... I think not as spectacular as Arches national park but still worth seeing :)



Back in Utah but just for a short time...



My mum :)

An my dad with his new toy :)



4 Corners... they built some new stuff there so we were not able to go in th middle...



New Mexico... for about 2 hours :D 

Colorado... ready for the next stop at our roadtrip

Dienstag, 4. Januar 2011

Vacation ~ Part 3 ~ Hoover Dam + Grand Canyon

After spending 3 days in Las Vegas we moved on to our next stop: The Grand Canyon. We drove a looooong time first over the Hoover Dam then through mhm .... how to explain... Well just take a look:

A new bridge parallel to the Hoover Dam

After Utah and Nevada there comes Arizona!!!


The Hoover Dam :)

Maybe this is a better picture... As you can see it is BIG!!!

Ya and that how it looked like where we drove through after the Hoover Dam and before the Grand Canyon...

In the middle you can see the sign for the historical route 66 ... 


First impression of the Grand Canyon... yeah just awesome, amazing, great

I don't know how to explain. It was just great!!! This is really one of the places you have to see because there is no way to bring everything on the pictures, there is just to much of everything!!!

One of my favourite things about the Grand Canyon are the shadows which make the Canyon kind of alive :D

Well ya my little sister... she kind of enjoyed sitting there :)

Me in front of the Grand Canyon, I think this picture turned out pretty good :D

The somehow different family picture :D

My feet ya they definitely had to be in this album ...

My little sister and me :D

Look they have aliens at the Grand Canyon :P

The next day and we visited some other spots at the Grand Canyon, whichever spot you are visiting, the Grand Canyon looks never the same ... always different... just AMAZING!!!

oh that little squirrel thingy was sooo cute :D

My family :D