From the Mountains to the Desert!!

I had a VERY restful night at Sundance (after watching 1 & 1/2 movies with Mom and Dad, sleeping until 7 a.m. which I NEVER do. Our bungalow looked just as beautiful in the morning with the snow so high that all you could see out the windows was snow piles.
We had a nice walk down into the village and back, just for the hike, Mom and Dad not buying anything. (Fortunately for them, nothing was open!!)
The drive down the pass was very pretty in the morning. Then we pretty soon went up another pass, and today we drove through I guess the entire state of Utah. The mountains changed from all high and snowy to really dry, no snow, and very red rock.
We went up into this National Park called "Arches" where Mom and Dad tried to have lunch at a picnic table but ended up in the car because there was nothing but clouds and this cold wind. Then we drove up through the park, which looked really cool except they wouldn't let me out in it, except to walk around the parking lots, which I did several times before I decided that it looked like a good time to pee because Mom and Dad has this look like they were going to be driving for a LONG time.
Which we did and there's nothing to say about that except that they got out a few times to take pictures and at one time I thought that they were worried about whether they could get enough gas in an Indian reservation ... but I wasn't worried, and sure enough, they had plenty and we made it out.
We went to what's called "Four Corners" because Mom had this idea we could put my paws in each of four states, but it turns out Four Corners is a tourist site by the Navajo Indians and they had closed and went home at 5 pm. We drove out past Shiprock, which was this really cool big spiky mountain.
Now we are happy and cozy and about to go to bed in Gallup, New Mexico, at this old hotel called the El Rancho where a lot of movie stars stayed when they were doing pictures out in the red rocks, back before Mom was even born. (Even before Dad was even born, if you can imagine that!)