Angels Landing

Today we hiked Angels Landing in Zion's National Park. It was such a nice day. It started off with a little adventure though. By the way, In and Out Burger just opened here in St. George and the wait is about an hour just for a hamburger. Anyway we went there right when it opened this morning so we only waited ten minutes. To continue....the adventure...We have been to Zion's several times but usually we just drive around and get out when we want. We have never really done a real hike in the park. When we got to the park we bought our pass and drove in like usual. We knew that we were going to be hiking Angel's landing so we turned left to head up the main road into the park. After a while we noticed that there weren't any other cars on the road and there were people walking around everywhere. There were only buses on the road. We started to feel like we were doing something wrong but we kept going anyway. We started looking through the packet of info that we were given at the gate and on the last page of the newspaper they gave us it states that as of April 1, 2008 private cars will not be allowed in the park again until the fall. Thanks for telling us. We were wondering why everyone was staring at us as we drove by. Anyway, we drove all the way back to the entrance to get on the bus like everyone else and luckily we didn't get caught. The rest of the day was perfect as you can see.

The top of Angels Landing

The warning signs before the ascent

The head of the trail

Falling off the face of the mountain (actually pretending...)

Tons of switchbacks

You can see the trail below...it over 1,000 ft to the top

The trail back to the bottom is in the background

Cheesecake Factory AGAIN!

I don't know how we WILLINGLY get dragged into going to the Cheesecake Factory everytime we get around one but we do. Its too good to resist. We went with Wes and Saun for brunch. Thanks for the invite guys. We are greatful for you guys.

Centennial Park

We spent part of our time in Twin Falls at Centennial Park down in the canyon. We had a ton of fun playing on the toys. I guess you act more like kids when you don't have them. I don't think I have ever seen any other old people like us jumping out of swings and playing on the teeter totter. Maybe there just wasn't anything else to do. Anyway my dad got out his camera and took some really fun pictures of the event.

Twin Falls

So Bryan and I went to Twin Falls this weekend!

Pacific Steel and Recycling

This weekend Laura and I went to Twin Falls to visit the family. On the way into town we decided to stop by my dad's office and check out the facility. He works for Pacific Steel and Recycling. My dad gave us a tour and let us play around on the equipment. We had a really fun time and it was really interesting. We were suprised at how much junk people had. It was also fun to watch things get crushed, dumped, chopped and moved around.

This is in the steel sales part of the facility. Safety first. Orders are placed, separated, custom cut, bundled together and shipped in this facility.

Welding steel for customers.

Check out all of the cans. 28 cans make a pound. Can you guess how many pounds are in one of those squares of crushed cans? I have no idea. You get 55 cents per pound for recycling cans. It is well worth it...I think.

This was the best part of the day. This all part of the recycling facility. Cars line up down the road to drop off of their junk. This is a huge sorting crane with a magnet that can be turned on and off with a switch.

I think the best part of the tour was watching cars get dropped off, moved around, cut in half with the schears, and then crushed into a square box. The cars then get sold and shipped to a company the melts them down and made into new cars...that we of course rebuy.  Enjoy the pictures.

Abducted by Aliens

This may look like some sort of alien abduction but its Laura getting her teeth bleached at her dental office. They got a new bleaching system that is supposed to make it so your teeth don't hurt after they get bleached and the dentist wanted to try it out. He gave all of his employees a free bleach to see if it was true. There is mild sensitivity in some patients so it worked good. Its just a fun picture so I had to post it.

Off the beaten path

This last Saturday we decided to join David and Suzie for a little hike. We wanted to get out and enjoy the nice weather and maybe start a tan. I was unaware of David's famous trails that he always finds that turn out to be trails that don't actually exist or that lead to nothing. And thats exactly what our hike turned out to be. We first stopped at a place where David thought there was a trail. It turned out to be an empty, dried out riverbed. A quarter mile later we turned around because it just took us to the base of some cliffs. He then drove to another spot where he thought that the trail would take us to the edge of Snow Canyon. We all knew that wasn't going to happen but entertained the idea anyway. We kept walking and walking. There was nothing to see except trees and rocks. It was fun to be together though and we laughed about our pointless hike. The funny thing is yesterday David took his motorbike back to this same trail and said it was ten miles to Snow Canyon. We are glad we turned around when we did. We might have ended up camping out all night.

This is where we stopped hiking and stopped to take a break.

Laura and Suzie enjoying the sun

Can you spot the lizard? David spent some time trying to catch it.

Suzie was talking and not paying attention and stepped on a cactus...ouch! I didn't think they were that hard to miss.