Moab River Trip

My boss has been going on river trips for about 30 years now. There was some cancellations on a trip he was doing in Moab this past weekend so me and Ryan got invited along. Friday after work we followed Stan (my boss) and his long time friend down to Moab, stopping at what looked to be a small town's biker's hang out called Ray’s Tavern on the way for a delicious burger and then slept under the stars by the river. Saturday morning we got up with the sun and helped get the rafts ready for the trip. About 10 am everyone was there that was going on the rafts ( a bunch of people we didn’t know, they were in some kind of art society but a pretty friendly group) was there and we loaded into the boats. Of course that was when the clouds came so unfortunately it was a little cool. We leisurely went down the river, stopped for some cliff jumping, lunch, water fights and a few fun rapids. So all in all a pretty good day. We went in to town to eat dinner with my boss and his friend and of course the sun came out just as soon as we got out of the river. After dinner we walked around town for a while and then decided against our camping plan (we were tired, had forgotten our flash light and hot) and rented a hotel room for an absurdly high price considering the quality of the room. Sunday we woke up early (due to the fire alarm that went off at 7:30 am (there was no fire)). Ate the hotel’s sad excuse for a continental break fast and went to the National Arches Park and hiked up to the delicate arch and explored a few other places around the park. After that we came back to our hotel and jumped in the pool which was really small got some sun ate a late lunch and headed back up to rainy/cloudy/cold utah county.

Seasonal Disorder

Its probably lame to post a blog about the wheather, but its been cloudy and rainy here for the past two weeks and its driving me nuts. This is why I can't live in Utah for the rest of my life. Its the second week of June it should be warm and sunny by now. It always teases you, gives you a few nice days in March and then snows, then gives you a few really nice days in May and then rains the first couple of weeks in June. Now I understand that summer doesn't officially start until the 21st but growing up in Texas for 16 years for some reason I feel entitled to June 1-August 31 should be nothing but perfect hot summer weather. I should be at the pool this saturday but the forecast is 74 and cloudy not quite pool weather, i feel cheated.

Note: I know that 74 doesn't sound too bad but today (its thursday now) and its 50 outside and still raining and supposed to be for the next week...I guess I shouldn't expect any sympathy from the Washingtonians (except for Kirsten- Thank you!)

So I married a Handy Man

When Ryan inspected our dishwasher to see why it was broken he said, "ok what I think I need to do is cut this wire and re-connect it over here, etc...." And I said "Um maybe we should just call a repair man." What I should have said was, sounds great, I know you can do it Honey or something like that (except for I've never once called him honey). This blog is to say I'm sorry I doubted your handy man abilities because you are an awesome, wonderful, Sexy- Handyman. I should never have doubted you. Total repair cost- $4 for supplies.

And, I usually don't think this but I can't wait to go home and do another load of dishes, so I can finally use the kitchen as I have this weird phobia, I'm not a neat freak or anything but if the kitchen is dirty I don't cook: Hence- a lot of eating out this week.

Also, totally un related to the topic of this blog I never posted our Memorial day Hike pics. We went up American Fork canyon with Ryan's family and did a little hike.

Updates

#1 Our dishwasher & micowave is now broken. I opened up our dishwasher sunday morning and heard a loud popping noise and a huge spark and the electrical cord thing that snapped seems to be connected to the microwave because it is also not working. I think i'll start taking bets on the next thing to break down.

#2 We have not been as diligent on our P90X program this month as we were last month. And our junk food intake/stash at our house has increased, not a good combo.

#3 We've been trying to decide when/where to go on vacation, (this is a contributor to the motivation for item #2) We've considered, Jamaica, Hawaii, Barbados but I think we've narrowed it down to the Dominican Republic and Tahiti ( which will probably be twice as expensive as the DR but Tahiti looks amazing, really, really incredible) My boss who has been everywhere attests to the fact that it is the most beautiful place he has ever been to. My justificaton on considering the Tahiti option is : tax refund- kids = Tahiti (also factoring in ignoring yesterday's entire day of church learning about being frugal, food storage and the economic crisis)