Wonderful Weekend

Brandon had fall break on Thursday and Friday, so Friday I ditched my lab responsibilities and we drove to southern Utah to do a canyon. Thursday night we stayed at a super nice place in Cedar City. And I mean it was probably super nice in 1927. Friday we got up early to go to Water Canyon just out of Hildale. It was SO beautiful. The leaves in the canyon were at the peak of their color. It was a steep three mile hike in, and then we dropped into the canyon. It was full of freezing water and fun rappels. By the end of the day we were shivering like crazy! Worth it.



I love this video. We were trying to set the timer on the camera; it's not often I get to see Brandon dance.



On Saturday, Matt and Audrey took us to the BYU game. It was so great! They had tickets to get us all this free food (like ribs and ice cream before and during the game) and we had awesome seats. It was SO nice of them! It was pretty much Brandon's dream come true.

A good feeling

So I was going to title this post "the best feeling," when I realized that I couldn't put my finger on the actual best feeling. There are lots of best feelings; and this is one of them. Today, after a week of bad weather, being sick, and living indoors, I decided to go on a bike ride. I'm still getting better so I didn't want to push it. Today I wasn't going for speed or mileage; I just wanted to get out. And it felt wonderful! The evening was beautiful; right before sunset. Snow still caps the mountains, but the temperature was perfect and the leaves have decided to stick around despite last week's snow. I rode a little ways up Slate Canyon and then across the foothills to the south. I love riding up a difficult hill, stopping at the top to admire my surroundings, and then flying back down (except for when I almost run over a big fat pheasant). It is definitely a good feeling.