A Saturday to Remember!

Sometimes I get so claustrophobic in Salt Lake. I need to get out and see and do something totally out of the normal of our everyday life!

So I picked up my book (A present from Drew! And I LOVE it!)

And Drew packed his book, and we were off!

So we set our alarm for 4:45 a.m. And we were in Provo by 5:45 a.m. Drew hit the Provo River with his brother Nathan, and I took the dogs on a Sunrise Hike up to Stewart Falls! It was an awesome morning!

Cleo was so excited about the sunrise she decided she needed to put her signature on my shirt!

The dogs!

Cleo in the sunrise.

So after a quick hike I picked Drew up and we were off again!

We invented a new way to travel with 2 very large dogs. We folded the back seat down, laid a blanket on the seat and trunk and the dogs were in Heaven!

We made our first stop in Richfield so we could deposit my checks, just to find out no banks are open in Richfield on Saturdays. So with an emergency call to my brother Nick (which included a laughing which then turned into crying! Ha! He saved us) we got the money taken care of, and the car filled up.

We then made it to our next destination. The Mystic HotSprings! Which are on page 212 of my book!

We met this man Mike Gingsburg, who did almost all of the artwork/bumper stickers for the Grateful Dead and is now the owner of the Mystic Hotsprings.

These are just a few of his buses. You can soak in the hotsprings for $10, camp for $20 (which includes 2 days in the hotsprings) or stay in a cabin for $30. We are for sure going back!

On the website mystichotsprings.com you can see all of the minerals that are in these hotsprings. Although the water looks a little shady, our skin felt SO amazing after we got out!

It's incredible how the minerals make these formations. They were so pretty!

The dug little canals so water poors directly into bathtubs! It was like my heaven!

After out soak we were off again!

We stopped on the way to have a picnic with my darling picnic basket. But alas, I forgot to take a picture. Then Drew stopped in Fish Lake, near Monroe, And fished for almost an hour. After he had his fill of fishing, (yeah right! Fishing for him is like the insatiable thirst!) we headed off to Goblin Valley!

Drew fell asleep while I was driving and we ended up on a forsaken road! I never claimed to be an expert map reader! It turned out to be the Old Highway 24. It was SOO remote we stopped to let the pooches run, and have some more time to enjoy ourselves!

Caesar enjoying Utah!

After that I was banned from driving! Fine. By. Me! So I Made it my job to insist Drew pull off at all of the scenic view points!

Where we looked at all the Native American jewelry and pottery the Natives had for us to look at!

This I believe was Eagle Lookout. Who can be sure at this point!?

And yes I did waste BOTH of our phone batteries taking pictures of our dogs! They were just being so stinking cute! So no pictures of Goblin Valley! But it was the BEST Saturday EVER!! Utah is the BEST!

Dog Lake

My absolute favorite hike thus far! Caesar and I headed up Millcreek again. Drew was enjoying some much needed brotherly love (fishing with his brother Nathan). And Cleo can hike that far yet.

Has anyone tried to take a self pix on an iPhone? Super hard!

The pictures are pretty self explanatory.

Caesar playing fetch!

Who knew this dog, who sleeps about 22hrs a day had so much energy!?

And just one of the 2 souvenirs from Caesar! For every ones enjoyment!

Late Night!

Drew and I were super ambitious the other night and set out alarms for 1:30 a.m. to go watch the perseid meteor shower!

There is an awesome iPhone app called Star Walk.

You can (with a 3gs) point your phone directly at the sky, and the app labels everything that you are looking at.

And shows a picture of the constellation you are looking at.

And if you want to know more about what you are looking at, you can select an image and it will zoom in and give you the details. So we drove up emigration canyon and whipped out the iPhone for a very informative meteor shower.

Needless to say we were exhausted the next morning. That is why I love Drew, he's always up for an adventure!

Canyoneers!

No just kidding but we had a fun filled day of canyons. The pooches and I started the day off with a hike up Millcreek Canyon on the Pipeline trail.

Odd days are dog days up Millcreek, so dogs can be off leash.

My little travel buddy Cleo!

The dogs were exhausted!

Then when Drew got home we were off to Silver Lake.

It was so beautiful. I haven't been up to Silver Lake since I was a little girl. And it was as amazing as I remember.

The scenery was breath taking, it was so fun to watch the fish jump out of the water.

Even better to be with Drew.

Mickey Mouse Mountain.... Could it get any better?!

-- Post From My iPhone

Amazing Weather = No Blog!

We had an amazing Memorial Day weekend, that I just haven't gotten around to blogging about! We started off with an early visit to my grandpa's grave. It is the first Memorial Day I have someone to visit. I miss my grandpa!

Caesar slept in...

And wasn't too thrilled to be woken up...

I rented out one of my dad's houses. Yes some how I managed to get the guy to pay a cleaning deposit, first and last months rent, and he threw in FREE Disneyland passes!!!! Score!

Caesar was as handsome as ever!!

We went golfing. And this is my attempt to try and verify my existence!! Did work out to well!

We made the trek up to Sundance for suckers!

And to enjoy the atmosphere!

Perfect weather!!!

We brought a long out lacrosse sticks, and played catch in the mountains!

We came home and drove up another canyon, to have a fire, and roast hot dogs!

Caesar's first campfire!

Then we set up a tent in our living room, and had a camp-in!

The next night we took Drewpy to his first drive in! In his new truck!!

And he loved it!!! Truly one of the best weekends EVER!!!