It's finally happened...Kristi and I are official! I'm leaving the duty of the story telling to her on her blog, but I made the photo montage of the night. Enjoy:
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Rachel Kirk is My Hero
Well in pulling my pictures off my camera I discovered this video I made with Rachel the day before she left the MTC...That twenty minute visit was the only time I've with Rachel in two and a half years. I love that girl: best twin ever! This video really captures our relationship.
19 July 2008
I'm home from paradise! Holy crap was it an awesome week. I had a blast. We drove in Monday night and then hiked down about 7 miles. The whole hike is about 11 or 12 miles, the Indian Village is about 8 and then its another 3 or so miles to the first fall. We slept on the trail a mile outside of town Monday night and then went and got our permits early Tuesday morning.
We went to all three of the major waterfalls the first day. If you ever plan on making the trip, Navajo Falls is definitely the most fun to play at, there is tons to explore and lots of great places to jump into crystal clear water. Moonie Falls: can I say amazing. I think the fall is about 300 ft. and to get to the base of the falls you have to climb down a cliff holding on to chains...so cool. If you hike down the creek beyond that, there are lots of little 15 ft falls you can jump from and underwater caves to swim into.
The second day when we woke up the water was brown as the chocolate milk river in Willie Wonka's factory. It rained the first day and I guess it washed down tons of mud and gunk from upstream. We continued to play and have a blast. We were in the water long enough to slowly watch as the water cleared back into a heavenly clear blue. That night we had to hold a tribal counsel because a couple of the guys had gotten some really bad blisters hiking in and wanted to take the helicopter out on Thursday morning. So us poor college students who couldn't afford that three minute trip started the hike out at 4:30 am Thursday morning (FYI--those switchbacks coming out are a nightmare!). It stunk because we lost a whole day at the falls, but one of the guys mom dropped the check for us to stay in the Bellagio in Las Vegas!
A free night in a suite on the Vegas strip! We were 34 floors up and could see the whole city from our window. This suite was amazing, I felt like a celebrity. After walking around town for a couple hours we went to the midnight showing of the Dark Night...
Need I say more: holy crap...that movie was crazy good.
Anyway, I'm home now safe and sound. It's a relief to be off the trail.
Below are some pictures of my trip:
We went to all three of the major waterfalls the first day. If you ever plan on making the trip, Navajo Falls is definitely the most fun to play at, there is tons to explore and lots of great places to jump into crystal clear water. Moonie Falls: can I say amazing. I think the fall is about 300 ft. and to get to the base of the falls you have to climb down a cliff holding on to chains...so cool. If you hike down the creek beyond that, there are lots of little 15 ft falls you can jump from and underwater caves to swim into.
The second day when we woke up the water was brown as the chocolate milk river in Willie Wonka's factory. It rained the first day and I guess it washed down tons of mud and gunk from upstream. We continued to play and have a blast. We were in the water long enough to slowly watch as the water cleared back into a heavenly clear blue. That night we had to hold a tribal counsel because a couple of the guys had gotten some really bad blisters hiking in and wanted to take the helicopter out on Thursday morning. So us poor college students who couldn't afford that three minute trip started the hike out at 4:30 am Thursday morning (FYI--those switchbacks coming out are a nightmare!). It stunk because we lost a whole day at the falls, but one of the guys mom dropped the check for us to stay in the Bellagio in Las Vegas!
A free night in a suite on the Vegas strip! We were 34 floors up and could see the whole city from our window. This suite was amazing, I felt like a celebrity. After walking around town for a couple hours we went to the midnight showing of the Dark Night...
Need I say more: holy crap...that movie was crazy good.
Anyway, I'm home now safe and sound. It's a relief to be off the trail.
Below are some pictures of my trip:
Sunday, July 13, 2008
13 July 2008
Three year ago today I reported to the MTC. Mom was a crying wreck, but I was excited as could be. I've come a long way since that day. I will be home from my mission a year this Friday. Today Kristi and I went to walk around the Provo Temple grounds.It is beautiful this time of year. As we were sitting there I thought about my mission, and how it had influenced my life. I am who I am because of that service.
The MTC sits across the road from the Temple and on Sunday the missionaries have free time to go walk around the grounds. A funny thing happened there. My missionary class wandered on to the scen4 as Kristi and I were leaving. I didn't shave today because I'm leaving for my trip to Arizona tomorrow and I was with a girl. They shouted down the road at me and approached with cameras ready for a celebrity photo shoot. It was great to see them one last time before they leave to the field. They were a great group. Now they will always have a picture or two of their MTC teacher with two days of stubble and a beautiful women on his arm. I'm going to my mission companion's house tonight and we are driving out tomorrow and then hiking to Havasupai that night. Then it is three days in paradise. Check out this link...it's amazing. I'll make sure to bring back lots of pictures
http://www.havasupaitribe.com/home.html
The MTC sits across the road from the Temple and on Sunday the missionaries have free time to go walk around the grounds. A funny thing happened there. My missionary class wandered on to the scen4 as Kristi and I were leaving. I didn't shave today because I'm leaving for my trip to Arizona tomorrow and I was with a girl. They shouted down the road at me and approached with cameras ready for a celebrity photo shoot. It was great to see them one last time before they leave to the field. They were a great group. Now they will always have a picture or two of their MTC teacher with two days of stubble and a beautiful women on his arm. I'm going to my mission companion's house tonight and we are driving out tomorrow and then hiking to Havasupai that night. Then it is three days in paradise. Check out this link...it's amazing. I'll make sure to bring back lots of pictures
http://www.havasupaitribe.com/home.html
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
1 July 2008
I've known for a while that Kristi has a blog, but she has kept it a secret because in her words, "who would want to read what I have to write..." Well, I finally convinced her to tell me what it was (I had to beg after my web searching skills failed). I love that girl.
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