Adventures

Last weekend I went to the Get Connected Outdoors program. I loved it! I had to wake up at 6am but it was totes worth it. I wanted to go but none of my roommates were interested in going so I didn't think I would make it. But one day in my math class my friend brought it up because she too had no one to go with! So we did it, we bought tickets right after that class period.

We drove about 40 minutes to BYUI's Badger Creek facilities. There were all sorts of activities. I went geocacheing, canoeing and did a ropes course. There are unfortunately no pictures of the ropes course. It was fun. I slipped at one point and got this nasty rope burn bruise combination. I looked abused. I honestly wore long sleeves for a week. But it was worth it, whateva.

At the end of the day as we were eating lunch I got light headed and my vision was blurred so I sat down and drank tons of water and put my head down. I didn't get a lot of sleep the night before and I only drank one water bottle, so I was probably dehydrated and tired.

Later that  night I went to the Relief Society Broadcast. I slept through the first three talks...I was tired. But I listened to President Uchtorf's. I really enjoyed his.

Camping Trip

This summer I ventured out on my very first camping trip planned by myself and my friends. Whoa. No chaperones. No adult planning or anything. We did a pretty good job as well, if I do say so myself. We took Guenella Pass and camped in a little site near a creak. I was absolutley gorgeous where we went. We totally lucked into that too, none of us had been there before.

This is me on the top of the pass. Before the storm rolled in...
Posing by our tent.

The water pump

The extent of the nearest townIt then started pouring rain. I was the only one willing to go out in it to retrieve stuff from the car. We all brought rain jackets like good RMSELians, but at this point I was tired of putting it on and taking it off so many times. Lazy.

After it stopped raining we went exploring! Look at how pretty is was!

While on our exloration hike we set the camera down to take cheezy pictures.

The real intent of the camping trip was to find and explore a ghost town. So the next day we set out for a town called Sts. John. This is what was left...

It was cool. While here we also went on a hike because there was another ghost town, to get to it we needed to cross a river, but we didn't. So we went somewhere else and came across snow instead. Snow in July. So we played in it. Duh.

We ran across this...

Then on the way back we stopped by this here sign. We passed it a million times this winter when we went to A-Basin, but we never stopped in the winter. We discovered that there is a trail all along the continental divide also, so we hiked up to one of the little peaks off the side of the freeway. It was pretty cool.

On our way home we stopped in some tiny town and took train pictures.

So yea. That was pretty much it, next summer we are going to plan out a bigger and better trip. But this sufficed for planning the day before, around everyone's work schedules.

Senior Solo

I just realized I never posted anything about my Senior Solo! So back in March the entire senior class went out to Fish Ford Utah. Here we spent one night together then the teachers dropped us all off in remote locations. So the next two nights were spent alone.

We were only allowed our sleeping bag, a tarp, six 5ft. pieces of string, water, and a blank journal. When I was first dropped off I just walked around my site a little, scouting it out and all. Then I set up my tarp in this cool little tree cove.

I spent the rest of the day writing my senior appreciations. We make a book of all these appreciations and give them to everyone in the class.

Once it started getting dark and chilly I crawled into my sleeping bag and went to bed. I woke up as the sun was rising. It was nice. I spent all of this day writing as well. I needed to write 21 appreciations for classmates and 6 for teachers. I wrote about a page per person. I hate writing so that was a big deal.

This second night alone I stayed up a little later and was able to see the moon and stars. Awww. The next morning a woke up and packed up camp and sat waiting to get picked up. Eventually my teachers came around and picked us back up. We then went to breakfast together after a full 48 hour fast.

The drive back was fun. I made 5 or 6 mix cds full of crappy fun party music. So everyone was singing along and having fun talking about all the things they did on their solo. We weren't allowed to have cameras or anything so once again no pictures.