Thursday, June 6 we worked on the temple grounds. Doran did a lot of the mowing and I learned how to deadhead roses. No wonder why the temple grounds always look so nice. There is order in their service work and everyone is willing to do their part.
I wish I were better about making our own yard look as nice.
It was a neat learning experience.
I would do this again.
After the service work we went home and hooked the trailer up for our first camp trip.
We went to Bear Lake for the weekend with my Mom and Stan.
We had reservations for Rendezvous Beach.
We aren't much for the water experience as we are to get away.
When we arrived there weren't very many campers and then we figured out why, maybe.
On our drive over Logan canyon we saw helicopters flying over the mountains. We were wondering where they were headed.
Come to find out that they are based at Rendezvous Beach for some training.
Some people were annoyed that they were there because the were flying from sun-up to way late in the night. They didn't bother me, I was fascinated with them.
I asked what it would take for us to ride in one and they said to sign on the dotted line.
Uh...sign on the Enlistment papers.
I am not ready to do that and I admire the men and women that do!
Every time a chopped started up the M*A*S*H* theme song would start playing in my head.
Friday morning Doran and I got up and drove to the top of the summit.
When we were driving before we were calculating how far it was to our camp site.
We figured it to be about 8 miles.
We parked the truck at the lookout and headed down the road.
We were having a pretty good run and then we had a watch die on us so I started my phone.
We stopped and filled our water along the way and used a resort potty.
When we hit eight miles we knew we had miscalculated!!
At about mile 13 we ran out of water again.
There was a rest stop that the water was not working. There was some parks lady there filling a bucket and said we could have some of that water. We asked if it was drinking water but she wasn't sure. She thought so. It tasted AWFUL!
We could see the camp site so we sucked it up and finished instead of calling for a ride.
That was the longest eight miles I have ever run.
We ended at 14 miles!
 |
| Such a refreshing treat after a run. |
I was so needing to put my feet in some ice so we decided to go and sit in the lake.
Well to get to the water from where we were, we had to trudge through the muck and sludge to get there.
This is as far as I got. It was gross, it felt like quicksand and...sharks!
That night we went to Pickleville Playhouse to see "El Bandito Rides Again".
It was hilarious!
Saturday morning was the Bear Lake Half-10k-5k race.
Doran thought about running the half but since we had already ran a grundle of miles the day before he wasn't sure he was up to another 13 miles so we went out to the road and watched for a couple of people we knew were running.
The service men and women were volunteering at a couple of the water stops. So cool!
We all took our bikes with us so we rode around camp a few times.
Sunday morning Doran and I went in to town to attend Sacrament.
It definitely was a great weekend!!
