If you are currently a Utah resident, you are blissfully aware of the loverly springtime weather we had this weekend. AKA rain. We couldn't even escape it in St. George. But that's ok, we didn't let the rain Rain on our parade.
On friday night, Derek and I headed down to St. George where we met up with his dad. We had a blast. We climbed - Dave's stubby finger and all. I told him fingers were overrated, and he got up the climb just as easy and Derek and I. I was proud to see him overcome the finger/grip barrier. It was pretty neat. In a way, it was TR in action....
Anyway, we took Dave up to the Red Cliffs Recreation Area. (unfortunately, our camera was broken, so i have no pictures. and google let me down for the first time today. they had no pictures too).
Anyway, we hiked up to the first pool, climbed up and around it and down through and over big red rocks to a second pool. up that was a third pool where you had to use a rope and steps cut into the rock to get above it. and onward to a fourth pool. we then skirted along the shoreline of the creek until we could go no further and were forced to scale up the rock. It was gorgeous. Red sandstone canyon with this tiny creek running through and all these big slabs of rock, one in which i found myself 3/4 the way up when i realized i had no clue how i was going to get down....i do that a lot. luckily for me, i have an awesome husband that came to my rescue. twice. once then, another when i was climbing back down the the creek and my short legs couldn't reach the ground. He is great.
Although, i did get some nasty looking raspberries on my upper thigh when i took a slight tumble one time. and i did fall into the 2nd pool...come down from a slanted slope, had too much velocity and kept going forward, i jumped to a rock to try and save myself and just kept going. right into the freezing water up to my bellybutton. if it'd been hot, i wouldn't have cared...but as soon as i got out, it started to rain. so we hustled out of there and then rain the mile or mile and a half back to the car. (i forgot to mention the road to red cliffs was closed due to construction. what a surprise. welcome to utah).
It rained so hard, the roads flooded and we feared they may become impassable. But the storm didn't hit st. george until derek and i were in the temple. in which, if you have not been to the st george temple, go. it is awesome! We met up with Megan and Brandon Valantine and Dave's friend/family for dinner and to go see Molly in Cats. She rocked it. It was a really good production of Cats. (believe me, I'd know, i was OBSESSED with the broadway when i was little).
Next morning was home again home again. What an exciting life we lead.
Oh yeah, the cleaning lady threw derek's chacos and t-shirt away. they were super muddy from our run in the rain, so he'd wrapped them up and set them on the ground (by the garbage can) so when she came to clean, she assumed they were garbage....and she dumpster dived to get them back! Thanks Yolanda!
