Cool places revisited

Yesterday Paul and I decided to try and find some places we had hiked to in the past, but had kind of forgotten how to get to.  We got lucky and with a little bit of wandering scored on both places and threw in a bonus visit to another cool place.Our first destination was a little slot canyon above Snow Canyon that has quite a few petroglyphs.   We hiked to where we thought it was and it wasn't there for some reason.  On the way back we kept looking around and happened upon some cairns that led us right to it.  We tried to make some really good mental notes and should be able to find it next time without  a problem...we hope!

Our second destination was to find the rock bowl with names carved in it out by Sandcove/Gunlock area.  We hiked there once a long time ago with the kids.  Once again we did some wandering and bushwhacking, but found it and now know the faster route.  Both places were so pretty (and yesterday was perfect hiking weather).  Only one thing could have made it better...if all of the family could have been there to enjoy it with us.

We decided to go through Gunlock on the way home and the bonus was that the dam was overflowing.  That is such a beautiful site.  We couldn't resist hiking over to it and taking a few pictures.  There were a couple of falls that the only way to see them was to go downstream a ways.  To really see them well you needed to cross the river and hike up the other side to a better viewing location.  Paul took the plunge and got the shots.  I didn't get in...had on my new leather hiking shoes and didn't want them shrinking on me.  If I had had on my old tennys , I would have gone with  him.

When we got home we got lucky again with a dinner invitation from Moss and Christie.  They did all the work and we just ate up the fruits of their labors...mmm good.  Then we headed off the the Saturday evening session of our stake conference which was held in the Tabernacle.  We met there again today for our main session of stake conference.  We had the best seats in the house...front row of the balcony facing the podium. Sunday evening we got together for the first of our monthly feast of the fast over family dinners.  We didn't have the full crew with Derek sick, Ryan working and Moss and Christie at baby blessing festivities, but we had lots of fun and plenty of good food.