What a weekend!

As you can see from Jess's last post, we went camping this past weekend with Jess's sister and brother-in-law. We went down to Capitol Reef, a place I haven't been in over 10 years. The change of scenery was awesome and the weather was mostly cooperative. We stayed sufficiently warm (a good thing, as the temps were about 20 degrees below the normal averages).

We went for a small hike down Capitol Gorge to see the pioneer register (where several pioneers carved their names into the stone when the came through back in the 1840's) on Friday, then hit Goblin Valley on Saturday. It was my first time in Goblin Valley, and I liked it a lot. Hadley (bro-in-law) told us about his previous campouts there and games of steal the flag. I can't imagine a better place for that.

Food was delicious--spaghetti, peach cobbler (dutch oven), dutch oven potatoes and pancakes for breakfast, and hot dogs for lunches. Tasty, and we got to break in our dutch oven we got as a wedding present (thanks, Ottesons!).

We flew a kite that I won at a friend's birthday party, which was tons of fun until it got stuck in a tree. And we had to leave it there. Blast.



Our first camping trip was a success, and I look forward to the next one. Jess was quite the trooper and did so much to help the trip work out. I love you, babe!