Monday, October 26, 2009

One Last Hurrah!

Dead Horse Point

Nothing stops a mother's heart like your children running along the edge of a 2000 foot cliff. It's amazing that none of us dropped dead right there on the spot. Here we are clinging to the girls in case a good strong wind comes along and blows us right off. Legend has it that cowboys corralled wild mustangs onto this butte and forgot about them. The state park sign that is posted at the view point tugs at your heart strings describing the poor horses looking on the Colorado River longing for thirst. While I feel that it was a terrible tragedy, I find it somewhat amusing that the writer would think that a horse could possibly see and know that there was a river just full of satisfying water a mere 2000 feet below. Well in any case we were careful to bring lots of drinking water for us while we hiked around the Gemini Bridges area, Dead Horse Point and Canyonlands. We had a great feasts of dutch oven cooking and Tracy made her first s'more. But you know that it has been a successful trip when you run out of beer and you get a camping ticket. I can't wait until next year!


2 comments:

tracy said...

My hell, look at how my husband is standing - that stance always cracks me up!

I love that photo of all of us womenfolk, and the trip was so awesome! I love hanging with you guys and look forward to doing it again in the spring.

I have actually had a s'more before with my friends, Jackie and Stefan. The only difference was they made them and I ate them. That was like 3 years ago, so you can see how if I don't write something down, it just falls out of my head - yes, even three ingredients - so it was great to see how it is done for future PMS reference - hee hee!

Kim and Steve said...

Why does it not surprise me that you got a ticket camping? Hee hee. Sounds like a good time. :)