Hi!
Remember these outings? We were looking for a mini arch that I had seen a picture of and found on google maps. First we saw a coyote:
It was a pretty nice trail!:
We finally found it, after sliding down the super steep rocky hill. Luckily Lulu stayed at the top with Pluto because we were doing all we could not to fall down without him pulling on us! Here's the tiny arch:
That wasn't worth the effort, especially since we couldn't get up the other side that has the view of downtown through it, and we couldn't get back up to the trail! Lulu and A went back on the normal trail while the boys and I decided to slide all the way down to the lower trail and try that one:
That was also not a great idea as just a bit up the way it got so steep and washed out that we were holding on to weeds to stop from falling down the mountain. At that point Hammer said "I'm just going straight back up this mountain to the real trail." It was a good idea so we climbed straight up and oh boy was it steep. My legs were sore for days after this. TJ said "This was the most dangerous thing I've ever done, and I'm never going to do it again. I thought at least we got some good pics on my nice camera of Pluto from the top with the view of the city behind him. When we got home I realized that I hadn't had my SD card inside the camera the whole time, and hadn't noticed! I had clicked away taking all these cool pics. I was so bummed. But hey, we did find the arch and can cross it off the list.
One Friday we didn't have a lot of time so we just went to find this spring in Centerville. It gets piped up to a faucet in a church parking lot. Random? Yes. Delicious water with zero taste? Also yes. Popular spot? Yes again.
The boys had some coupons to use for shaved ice at a place not super far from here, so we also added that on to our excursion.
This hike is called Holbrook Trail. We did the lower half, that goes down by the creek. You boys couldn't wait to get in the water and then A said "Why does it feel like ICE?" After I had you pose by the water Lulu stepped back and her foot got all wet. She was a trooper and finished the hike since it was only half a mile each way:
It's hard to tell, but there were tons of yellow wild flowers blooming on the trail:
We ended at a place where there were a bunch of little bridges to epxlore:
Always looking for cool rocks:
We had had Rainbows from a local Bountiful place on our to-try list forever so I splurged and got us all one. It's a slushy with ice cream and it was so yummy:
The next trail is called Shepard Creek trail. We didn't go too far up as we were short on time again:
We found the little teeny creek:
The end! Fun time.
Love,
Lulu got a Cafe Rio salad for her amazing report card:
I babysat your new cousin one afternoon. Cutie pie:
