August 26, 2020 Lunch – Chicken Salad Sandwiches at a Great View Picnic Area in Canyonlands National Park. Dinner – Grilled Lamb Chops, Baked Potatoes, and Salad

 August 26, 2020 Lunch – Chicken Salad Sandwiches at a Great View Picnic Area in Canyonlands National Park. Dinner – Grilled Lamb Chops, Baked Potatoes, and Salad 

This was another super interesting day. We got up at 7:30 and ate tropical fruit salad for breakfast. I also ate a heated slide of French Baguette with sliver of Iberico cheese.

We then drove to Canyonlands National Park, which adjoins Dead Horse State Park. We went to all the sights and even hiked the ½ mile to the Mesa Arch.  We ended our morning excursion at the lookout where one cab see the spot where the Green River converges with the Colorado  River at Grand Point.  We could not see the confluence because the rivers have cut deep gashes in the geography.

Wilson Arch

One of the most interesting things we saw was Whale Rock, a large formation that looks like a whale. Here is a picture.

We ate lunch at the picnic area just north of Grand Point.  We ate chicken Salad Sandwiches with potato chips, cucumber slices, tomato slices, chicken salad, avocado slices and lettuce on German whole wheat bread with sips of Advocat Oregon Pinot Gris.

The view from our picnic table

This raven’s main food source appears to be tourists’ leftovers

Melon, cucumber, avocado, lettuce, and tomato

Our chicken salad sandwiches were delicious

After lunch we drove back to the yurt and napped until 4:15.

I organized my phone for a Zoom meeting with Suzette’s help and participated in my 5:00 zen meditation meeting.

Soon after 6:00 we received a phone call from Willy that our house had been burgled. We went into motion while we prepared dinner to get the broken window sEaled.  By 7:30 everything was covered, reset and alarmed again.

Suzette buttered and double wrapped two large potatoes in foil and put them on the grill.  Then I made a salad of Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, cubed mozzarella cheese, and sliced avocado with a balsamic olive oil dressing and Suzette grilled six lamb chops.

We enjoyed the moon rise and sunset as we ate dinner.

I poured the last half bottle of Wellington 2012 Merlot into glasses and we enjoyed dinner.  Soon the darkness fell and we bathed in the brilliant light of the moon.

Bon Appetit

We watched the dark sky and sipped Croft Ruby Port that I recently bought at Costco. 

At 10:30 we went to sleep.