Down South!

So Mike and I spent this past weekend in Southern Utah! I had never been down there before and it was so much fun! We stayed with his sister Becky in Cedar, and then went hiking each day down at Zions National Park! It was such a blast! Becky was on call all weekend so she didn't get to come do much with us but at night we hung out at her house in the evenings and had fun visiting and hanging out together! I don't even know how to describe the weekend... but it was exactly what I needed! We left Friday and stopped in Ogden/ Salt Lake for some shopping for the trip and got to Cedar that afternoon. This first day we just took it easy, we went for a short drive up the canyon and it was really pretty. I just am still not used to how beautiful the mountains are, they still baffle me all the time.

Saturday, we got up and went to Zions, we did the Emerald Pools Hike in our fancy new Tevas! (Mike bought us matching pairs haha, they are awesome and so comfy!) We also did the weeping rock trail that day too...

I was so facinated by these cactus flower things... they looked like plastic it was strange, but they are really pretty...
There was a lot of pretty flowers and stuff to see!

So all the pictures of me I'm really SUPER excited or not so much... because Mike kept insisting on taking pictures of me that I didn't want taken but oh well... This is one of the falls to the lower emerald pools.

Somewhere along the emerald pools hike... Sand Hollow was so much fun and so pretty! The water was a little cold at first but you got use to it... Mike jumped off the top rock... it took me like 30 min just to decide to jump off the lower one... Once I did it was fun, except for the fact that I got water in my ear and it started hurting.

We left after that to head back to Cedar and get some dinner. As the night went on though my ear started hurting more and more until I was in so much pain that Mike made me go to the ER... The doctor looked at it, and it was INFECTED! It had only been 3 hours and my ear was infected! So they gave me some antibiotic ear drops, and a big IB Profen, and then sent me home with a bottle of Lortab... Mike said he instantly new when my lortab kicked in. We were at Becky's eating pizza, and I started rocking back and forth, and if I looked up at either of then I would just start laughing.... I was dancing by myself while sitting on the couch and just laughing A LOT.... they had a pretty fun time watching me make a fool of myslef, but it was pretty funny and my ear felt SO much better!

Sunday morning we had a late start, just lounging around the house, and then finally decided to drive back down to Zions... and we did ANGEL'S LANDING!
We got such a kick out of this little family and their matching camelpacks, Mike had to take a picture... he says the Dad's is different so he can dominate his man status... These switchbacks were seriously going to be the death of me... this is once we got to the top and thats how many we had to come up... well part of them and some were STEEP! I could barely breathe... my stupid eastern lungs! Mike was super patient the whole time! Contemplating on whether or not we should do this... Mike bought me a new hat so I could be "legit" haha.

Seriously, breathtaking! And yeah, we hiked on that ridge to the left you see! We did it!!
After this we were pretty dang exhausted and hung at Becky's for the night and left the next morning. It was really a great trip! I hated leaving and can't wait for our trip to NC in 11 days!! Although I have found out it will be the last time I can go back to this house in NC... my parents are moving... to TEXAS! So it's weird... I'm not sure what that will be like...