Memorial Weekend

Every year a big group in our ward does a southern Utah camping trip for Memorial weekend. This year it was in Capitol Reef and there was a great turnout despite the wet weather. It was Sam's first time camping in a tent and he did terrific. We had a great time hiking, dancing, eating, shooting, catching lizards and playing around the campfire. Since about half our ward was there we even had a Sunday service and Eddy gave a terrific talk.


We went on this great hike with a pool at the end where you could jump off. Here Travis is trying to coax Eddy to jump, "I'll catch you Eddy."

Coop and Sam are great friends and loved playing together in the car.

We had a nice break in the weather and with a big group of about 40 of us went on one of the hikes that wasn't closed due to the weather. It was so beautiful down there and when it started sprinkling on us, became even more beautiful. The waterfalls started picking up off the canyon walls and we were all booking it back to the cars for safety.



Driving out started out ok, then the flood waters were raging and the road became a river. I love this picture because not only do you see the Peterson's mini raging through the water with the water splashing up 6 ft+, but you see the sheer joy in Eddy's eye's in the rear view mirror (that a few minutes later became fear when our car almost didn't make it), you also see the GPS with a car driving on green= no road at all. Silly Garmin, shouldn't the screen have been blue for water?