Hiking! Ya! Second weekend in a row! It has been wonderful to be out in nature the last two weekends. Sunday is our usual hiking day, this past Sunday we were coming home from a camping trip so we decided to go on Monday. The weather was absolutely gorgeous. It is perfect hiking weather. This weekend we went to our regular mountain, Superstition Springs, and decided to do Siphon Draw.
This is my least favorite hike. (because of my fear of heights, this terrifies me). Anyway, we made it up the trail of Siphon Draw and went even further than last year. It felt like a real improvement for me to be able to go further and go even higher. As you pass the Siphon Draw trail you then do a lot more of climbing over rocks and it is quite the experience. Travis calls me an "emotional Talker" because as we climbed further up the more emotional my speech got and how I was scared and this is not fun. When we climbed back down and got back to our truck it was dark, we sat in the bed of the truck and looked at the mountain we had just conquered.
It felt great, I then turn to Travis and said, "with all said and done, that was a lot of fun, I really enjoyed the hike and all the animals we saw. I know I was being a pain as we got higher up but now that it is over I feel fine." He turns to me and says, "like I said, you are an emotional talker!" And I understood what he meant by it. =) |
| Dancing with JimBob |
So one story I forgot to mention when we reached the highest part there was a bee/fly thing like creature! And no joke it kept following me. At first JimBob (the creature's name) really freaked me out! And then I realized he was my guide. A guide bug. Because he would surround me then go to Travis and then back to me. He kept flying between Travis and I. And no joke he followed me down the entire mountain!!!! I have the picture where JimBob and I are dancing.
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| Laughing at me because I swore I never made it this far last time, but then I remembered I had |
