Side note: for those not familiar, a “Bunny Day” is a Breuer term that came from a one-off scene from a movie we only saw once (The Five Year Engagement) over a lifetime ago but it has stuck. It typically refers to a day where you just want to lay around the house and do nothing.
Second Side Note: We ended up not finding a campsite in Canyonlands (although to be fair we didn’t look too hard). We instead showed up a day early for our reservation at the Moab KOA and got a site upon arrival.
After the meltdown on Monday, we decided to take a day off on Tuesday. We were going to lay low, do a little shopping, eat lunch in town, swim in the pool, read books and get caught up on laundry.
First impressions: Moab is the hipster, desert, off-roading sister city of Bend, OR. There were coffee shops on every block, there was a mini food truck lot and there were more outdoor apparel shops than needed. There were also countless 4x4 adventure tourism outposts, all with their own jeeps and rock crawlers on display. While in town we bought presents for Meike (belated birthday), I bought a mug for Timber Cove, Oskar bought a sticker (he was officially out of budget) and Alva bought a crochet kit to make a llama. We also enjoyed shaved ice and a decent lunch.
Back at the KOA I had a little work to do, Martin did the laundry and the kids made a friend playing bocce ball, which led to more friends playing with the camp cat and even more friends playing at the pool.
Things were starting to look up for Alva and excitement was high when they joined the tie-dye session later that evening at camp. Unfortunately the busy day in town and possibly a little bit too much sugar (shaved ice before lunch, lemonade at lunch, ice cream at the pool and smores with their new friends) might have been the cause of Alva’s second massive meltdown in two days.
We went to bed mentally exhausted and prayed that she wouldn’t go for a hat trick of meltdowns the next day.
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