Camping

A couple weekends ago we packed up our camping gear and got out of the heat! We headed up to the Rim with some of Jeremy's co-workers. I was a little nervous because thunderstorms were in the forecast all weekend. The last 2 times I have gone camping, it's rained on us! Once we had just set up and the rain was so bad we decided to pack everything back up and leave. The second time, it rained in the evening and we toughed it out, but it continued raining over night and we woke up completely soaked - air mattresses, sleeping bags, clothes, everything. It was horrible.

I anticipated a bad time if rain was going to be involved so I tried to be pro-active about things. I folded all the seats down in the vehicle (and left it empty in case we had to make a dash for it in the middle of the night). If that didn't work, we got the keys from Kristi and Steve for their cabin up in Heber.

We didn't leave the Valley until about 5:30 on Friday and got up to Bear Canyon Lake around 8:00 or 8:30. It looked like it rained a little just before we got there, but the weather was nice! It wasn't freezing cold, but it was a little chilly in a short sleeved shirt.

We set up and hung out with everyone around the campfire that night. It was fun to finally be able to relax!

Saturday, we went down to the lake to fish. We found a nice spot and hung out all afternoon. I don't fish so I was just sitting there enjoying the lake, trees, shade, somewhat quietness, etc. Jeremy forgot his fishing pole so he was using Andrew's while Andrew was trying to catch crawdads with the other kids. Jeremy cast the line and then asked me to hold it while he did something else and wouldn't you know it, but the line tugged and I had a decent sized trout. No one else caught anything that day (except the kids and their crawdads). How funny huh?!

Jeremy and I took our sweet time packing up our stuff on Sunday. Neither of us were in a big hurry to get back. We finally got out of there about noon, but didn't head back. The three of us went down to Woods Canyon Lake to see if Andrew could fish. Again, we found a nice spot and hung out, waiting for the fish to bite. We didn't catch any fish, but we enjoyed the bald eagles flying around and swooping in to catch fish in the water. I wished I had my camera to take a little video of them. It was cool!

A thunderstorm rolled in that caused us to finally decide to head back to the car and get home. We ate in Christopher Creek on the way back and it was still raining and cloudy. I think the weather was teasing us for what we were going back to; hot and sunny.

At least we had a small tasted of nice weather. I don't think we'll see weather like that again until Wisconsin in August. I can't wait!!!!

My fish!