Thanks, Jose!

I am still not altogether sure whether this was a good plan or a bad plan. Yesterday I was feeling crummy from sinus/cold/allergy junk and had a pounding headache all day. I went to the grocery while Thomas was at Cub Scouts (because, believe me, otherwise I was NOT leaving the house yesterday). The avocados looked particularly good, so I picked one up to make guacamole last night. Just sounded good. And when I went in the fridge to get a lime for the guac, I saw the bottle o' margaritas leftover from last Mom's Night sitting there all innocent-like. So, yeah, my dinner consisted of some really good guacamole, chips and a couple of margaritas . . . followed by more benadryl and tylenol. Let's just say that I fell asleep really fast and early.

Apparently I dropped off the face of the earth.

But I'm back. And I have photos.

Thomas getting his Wolf badge

Mike & Thomas at the Dixie Scout Expo

We went camping this weekend. We first drove up to Cedar Breaks. It was super chilly and windy at 10,000 feet. The shutter on my camera is acting stupid, so there are no photos of that.

Then we stopped in at Kodachrome (everyone, sing along . . . gives us those nice, bright colors) Basin State Park. We took a short little hike out to Shakespeare Arch. Looks like a place we'll head back to sometime for a weekend. Nice campground & lots of nice trails.

Shakespeare Arch

Next we did a bit of a drive-through of Grand Staircase-Escalante state park. More nice campgrounds & trails for a future trip. But we pressed on toward our final destination & set up camp at a private campground in Torrey, outside of Capitol Reef National Park. Sunday we drove around a bit, though many of the roads were closed due to rain. We tried to hike a bit, but were rained out of most of what we wanted to do.

Panorama Point

Freemont River

We had intended to hike out to Sunset Point & catch the sunset. We decided against it because of the storms in the area -- not wise to be at a high point in a lightning storm. I so wish I had a fancy-schmancy camera with a wide-angle lens that could have captured this. We saw the entire arch of this double rainbow. So amazing.

More rain on Monday. We did attempt to hike to Hickman Bridge. We started in sprinkles and turned back halfway there because the rain just kept getting heavier and heavier with lightning and thunder.

Capitol Dome



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