Monday - May 26, 2014
We woke up, packed up our things, and headed to the nearest gas station to buy some milk for our cereal. We planned on spending most of the day hiking.
Here are the maps of where we planned to go adventuring. We are going to the slot canyons.
It was a long drive on a dirt road to get to our hiking destination. These pictures are of us getting ready to begin our hike. We had to pack our hiking backpack with lots of water.
The start of the hike was pretty scary. Brinley was almost too afraid to try, but Roger and I stayed close to her and we made it across with out any problems.
We reached the first slot canyon. It is called Dry Fork. I loved hiking through this area. I took way too many pictures.
We made it through the first slot, but we couldn't find the trail that would lead us to the next slot canyon. We followed a trail for a while and the trail got smaller and had fewer and fewer foot prints on it as we went. We turned back and found another trail that we thought might be the right trail,but we didn't have enough water with us to be hiking for too much longer. If we took the wrong trail again, we would have been in trouble. so, we just headed back the way we came. So the next few pictures are of us hiking back the same way we came.
Climbing back up the mountain was way more difficult than I had expected. It was much hotter by this point and a big part of the trail was sand. The sand had been fun to go down, but it made going up much more difficult.
These pictures are from the drive back from our hike. It felt like we were on that dirt road forever! It's one of those situations where you know how many miles you have to go and you think, "That's not bad. It shouldn't take us too long." But the dirt road makes it take much much longer than expected.
I had read on a website before we left, that the drive between Anasazi State Park and Escalante is a thrill in and of itself. I hadn't heard of it before, so I had no idea why or what could make a drive through an area like that so thrilling. I really wasn't expecting much and I had kind of forgotten about what I had read, until we reached the top of this mountain and all of the sudden there are big drop offs on either side of us. There was hardly even a shoulder on either side of the road. Also, there were no guard rails. It was definitely thrilling! I was scared, but also impressed with the scenery. It was a very exciting drive. I didn't want to look down even for a second to grab the camera and take pictures. I hoped we would drive this away again on the way home, so I could take pictures then. We did drive home this way and that's what these pictures are from. It was still an awesome drive, but I think it was way more exciting when we first drove over it. Probably because we weren't expecting it.
Roger was starting to get tired and I needed a bathroom break, so we stopped at a rest stop in Dixie National Forest. Roger said he wanted to try and take a little nap, so the kids and I decided to hike around and play outside for a while. It was very beautiful and we had a lot of fun.
The girls kept trying to quickly put their hands in front of the camera before I took their pictures. They thought they were hilarious.
Taking some selfies.
Getting creative with camera angles.
Alissa decided to pretend that she was an old lady who had fallen and couldn't get up. For some reason, this really cracked me up. I couldn't stop laughing.
I laughed so hysterically at Alissa pretending to be an old person who had fallen, that Parker decided he would give it a try. I thought Parker was pretty funny also.
Now the kids each took turns running toward me while I snapped pictures. I forgot about putting it on sport mode until Parker reminded me. That's why there are only a few pictures of Alissa running and a lot more pictures of Brinley and Parker running toward me. When the camera is in sport mode, it snaps like 10 pictures in a row.
Alissa had a funny idea to have me take a picture of her smiling, then take another picture from the same spot, but this time, she'll balance a pine cone on her head and make a hurt face, like the pine cone just fell from the tree and hit her. We loved that idea, so Parker and Brinley tried also.
Parker wanted me to take a picture of him laying in the road like he had gotten run over. After I took the first picture, the girls ran over to join in the fun. They thought it'd be funny if they had pictures of them looking like they were stepping on him. We just had too much fun goofing off.
I thought the sky was very beautiful.
Roger woke up. He took about a 40 minute nap. The kids and I were walking around and goofing off for about an hour. We did good. Roger felt well rested after that and we were able to head home again.
We didn't plan very well and ended up being in the middle of nowhere when it was time for lunch. It took clear until 4:00 until we were somewhere that had a place to buy food. We weren't too far away from Nephi by that point, so we decided to be strong and hold off until we got to Nephi. We were starving by the time we finally got there. We were very happy to have some food in our belly's and have another bathroom break. We drove straight home from there with no more stops. We were exhausted by the time we got home. Parker and Brinley decided to stay home from school the next day, so they could sleep in. Alissa needed to turn in some homework, so she could participate in the fun end of the school year parties, so sh woke up early and went to school the next day.
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