Canyonlands and Arches are very close together so we mixed it up and some days saw both, depending on our schedule and what we felt like seeing/doing.
After Page, we drove another 4ish house north to Moab. On the way there, we stopped in the southeastern side of Canyonlands to split up the drive a little. This park is split into 3 sections that aren't connected. This section is called Needles. Our main reason for coming was to see Newspaper Rock. And then we ended up doing a small hike.
Two days later we went into the northern section called Island in the Sky. We had a big day hiking the day before and wanted to take is somewhat easy. So we saw Mesa Arch and did a trail (I think we did Grand View Point Overlook).
Happy one year of being married to this guy!