Sometimes my wife just makes some delicious food, this
weekend it was fondue! We cut up a lot
of fruit and veggies and made two batches.
One for Sunday night, the other for Monday night and invited a few
friends over to share. What's funny about
living in Utah, is that not a lot of people have ever tried fondue. Usually because it’s made with wine and in Utah
that might require a trip to the liquor store.
Thanks to our friends in Omaha who gave us our fondue set for our wedding, we have a great recipe that substitutes apple juice
for wine. Our friends are blown away by
it because in most cases it’s a treat that they’ve never had before (again the
whole wine thing) and we get to show off how cultured we are. #pattingmyselfontheback
Big adventure this week was making our trip to Zion National Park
and hiking the Subway. We’ve been
talking about this for weeks and leaving the followers of this blog (all six of
you) on pins and needles every week!
BTW, big shout out to all of you who do read this blog. We hope you find it fun and enjoyable.
Wednesday night after work, we loaded up the car and headed
to Zion. We decided to run the canyon mid-week
because it was a lot easier to get passes for the canyon. The weekend always seemed to get booked
really quick. So since Kaela worked last Saturday, she had a day to take off this week.
Two years ago I decided to sell my Subaru Outback. It was a beautiful car, leather interior,
turbo engine, stick shift. This car was
a dream except for the fact that it kept having engine trouble that would cost
$2000 + to fix. The summer before I sold
it, I did a lot of car camping. Instead
of setting up a tent or laying down on the lumpy ground I would lay down my back
seat and stretch out comfortably with a sun roof above my head to watch the
stars through. When I was looking for a
car to replace the Subaru I had a list in my head of a few features that it had
to have. The ability to car camp was one
of them.
Say hello to car camping with Bean!!! Pulling off onto a dirt road sure beats
paying for a crappy hotel. And when
there is a Maverick gas station just down the road with toilets and rotating
shift times, it’s really easy to get away with not paying for a camp site.
The Subway is a fun challenging hike that requires you to
have a 60 foot rope to rappel down a few obstacles. When I did the hike a few years ago, my
friends and I used the rope more as something to hold on to as we scrambled
down logs and rocks to get to the bottom.
This year, the canyon had completely changed. Logs that had been there before that we had
scrambled down or crossed to get to easier sections to scramble down were
gone. Logs had been washed into sections
of the canyon that made other sections more difficult to get through. I hadn’t expected this change in the canyon
to be so different from last time. Fortunately,
we came prepared with a harness and rappelling gear. Last time we hadn’t needed them, so I almost
didn’t bring them. As we descended the
30 foot cliff to get to the bottom of our last rappel I felt very grateful to
have included the gear we needed to get down safely.
Jim and Karen Wright came with us on the hike too and did it
like champs! I think I sugar coated some
of the obstacles we were going to come across to convince them to come. One thing we didn’t expect was the cold
weather. We went on the one day that the
temps dropped 10 degrees cooler than normal.
It made for some tricky hiking but thanks to dry bags we were able to
cross the water obstacles then put dry clothes back on.
We didn’t run into many other groups while hiking, probably
because of the cooler temps but we did see two guys from Israel a few times hiking down
the canyon. I don’t know what they do in
Israel to make these guys so tough but they were hiking in t shirts, bummy
running shorts, and duck taped Tevas.
Most of the hike they did in their bare feet. Minimalists, eat your hearts out.
We drove home the same night to get back in time for work
the next day.
Saturday Kaela went with Alyssa and Shana to the conference center for the Relief Society General Session after she got off work while I
tore apart my four wheeler to replace a stripped out bolt to prepare for our
upcoming desert trip!!!
#cliffhanger!
#our6followersbecome5duetoannoyingcliffhangers
#nexttime!
Looks like fun! Awesome pictures.
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