Labor Day without Labor

Labor day came and we found ourselves wanting to do something completely unrelated to laboring...so we decided to go to Great Falls Park.

WOW it's beautiful!

My little sister Sarah was out visiting for a few days and came with us wandering around.

High water marks...


Yeah...notice it has gone higher then me and I'm almost 6' tall and that means it has to come over the about 12-20' cliff first and then rise another 6 -12'





Can we say scary? I wouldn't want to be there when a flash flood comes along...












Swirly holes in the rock. And use in the Swirly hole....

So according to the sign these little swirly holes are created when there's flooding and vertexes form due to the rushing water...hmm crazy! The mighty power of water is a little scary. I have a lot of respect for water.

Rock climbing. Mel is part billygoat. But I must say, when you see an opening like that who wouldn't want to climb up there and check it out?

Did you know that there are shells at Great Falls park? Tons of them...

There was a little sign that explain why there were shells, but honestly I don't remember. I guess I'll have to get back to you on that one, but now you know that there are tons of shells in Great Falls park and you can spend hours contemplating why.

Overall it was a beautiful day. I would love to go back sometime soon to see the park with the changing leaves.

Ward Campout - Take Two

Alrighty! It's the time of year again...actually it's a month ealier. They moved the ward campout up a month in hope that we weren't freeze as much. It worked...at least for me. It wasn't nearly as cold this year as last. I ended up kicking some of my blankets off.

It went over really well and in basically the same fashion as it did last year...

Mel even brought her homework again and wasn't the only one...the other guilty party was Darin Poulson. He's also working on his masters.

One major difference was the 'rave' we had during the bomfire. It consisted of Reed, Brian, Darin, Sundee and her roommate Kate, Annie, Mel and me twirling glowsticks on a string and making random noise and sing random song, including, but not limited to the Chicken Dance song from Arrested Development. Good times had by all...