Bryce Canyon

Last weekend we took a tour of Bryce Canyon with Patrick's family. Patrick's parents received their mission call in the mail the day before, so they waited for everyone to get to the campsite on Thursday night and then opened it with all of us there. I'll give you a few hints... cold, whales, north, inuits (?), huge... That's pretty much all I know about Anchorage, Alaska! They will be serving mainly in Fairbanks in the CES program. We are so excited for them- they will be awesome missionaries!

It was a pretty awesome trip. I kept wondering how it would feel to be hiking around back in the 1800's (or you know, whenever it was discovered) and come across something like that. It's pretty breathtaking at first sight.

Me and Grahm with Patrick's mom, JoAnn

We hiked a 3 mile trail in the blistering heat, sweat almost to death, got stuck in a torrential downpour (well, we were in the car, so I guess that's not really STUCK in it, but it was kind of awesome any way), and saw a pretty sweet waterfall. I even had some conversations with a couple different groups of french people and could understand them! I was pretty excited, b/c despite my promise to myself to keep up my french, I haven't done a thing about it. I'm happy to say that I understood about 90% of what they said, AND could say about 90% of what I wanted to say. Just sayin'...

Someone offered to take our picture... you'd think that out of the group of 5 or 6 people that were standing there watching, someone would have said, "hey- your kid's hat is in his face", but hey, we were just glad to get a pic with all 3 of us where one of us isn't all distorted from holding the camera at arm's length.

Good times. Good times.