Action Packed Weekend

This past weekend was full of fun and adventure. Keri and Will and the kids went camping in Springdale (city just outside gates of Zion National Park), Sheri and Talon went up with them too as well as their young friend from Buffalo, Christina.

For those of you who know Sue and I, you know that we are not campers, so we stayed behind on Friday night and babysat Addy, now, that was a really tough job but somebody just had to do it :)

Sue and I went up Saturday morning to meet them so we could all go on a hike. We were expecting a few hikes that were pretty mild since all the kids were up there with us. But when we got there we all decided to do Angel's Landing......again.....for Sue and I that was pretty great. We've done that hike now twice in the last month. Everybody did great....even Eli...the 3 yr old. Kari was a real trooper by helping Eli the whole way. Seriously, she carried him almost the whole way back down...yikes! My pedometer showed that I had walked almost 13,000 steps (almost 6 miles). Now, I'm 6' tall, you can imagine how many steps Eli and the rest of the kids took with their short little legs. The kids were awesome though....really!

Kari and Will packed a terrific lunch for everybody and we ate at Scout's Landing right near the very top. Will and Talon went all the way to the top of Angel's Landing which is about another 400 yards, but it is a treacherous climb those last 400 yards so they were the only ones who went. I stayed to guard the "women folk" and chil'n (actually I think they guarded me :)

We took a few more pictures but this time we took most of our pictures with family....you can see our previous photos of Angel's Landing  on a previous blog and on my Facebook page.

We left Koshari home for th trip as we was acting up a little bit and I think he may have even been jealous of Addy...not that we're focusing on her or anything :)

We also celebrated Brinly's birthday over the weekend too. We had a big honkin Butterfinger Blizzard ice cream cake that was, well, pretty fandamntastic!

All in all it was another great weekend in Sue and Ray's Zion Paradise!