Our poor blistered feet...

So last week me and Blake, aka Boytoy, went hiking Angels Landing. Friggen amazing! I have never done it so I was very nervous/excited. It was a long and awesome hike. Going up the switchbacks was especially great because Boytoy got tired and stopped, bending over, and gasped, "Can we---stop----please??" I flounced on past (poor guy). I had so much more energy than I thought! The day was perfect and I could have gone straight to the top without stopping! So empowering! Picture number one on the other hand, shows exactly how Boytoy was taking the hike. Hehe. The chains were a wee bit scary. I kept wondering how long they had been there. Later we looked up the construction of the Angels Landing hike and learned that workers spent all day constructing the hike using mules and hanging vicariously off cliffs for $3.50 a day. Gee. I thought my job sucked. Anyways, we got to the top and a girl was laying down TAKING A NAP! Now the top is pretty flat, but one cannot deny the freakyness of the perilous cliff mere feet away. Of course we had to document our journey with plenty of pictures. And, dude, we totally made out at the top!! ;)

The next day I guilted Blake into going hiking with me again and we hiked up Emerald Pools. Very cool. It seems like every time I go it is still soo amazing and just... wow. <-Almost to the top of Angels Landing. My face tells me that the chains were right ahead of us.

<--Here is what I was probably looking at. The next leg of our journey onto the Horn.

After we got to the top pool, we took these pictures on a rock and then laid down on our backs and looked up at the canyon walls. It was trippy! I would recommend anyone do it though because it is sooo cool to do!

<--I don't think it's possible to look at this cheesy grin and not smile!

<--Ok, yes, yes, I was totally hyper and thrilled to be there!!

Anyways, I am totally getting an annual pass because I had sooo much fun! I haven't thought of myself as outdoorsy until this whole hiking phase. Little Brother said to Mummy, "I can't see the point of hiking! It just seems like a waste of time!" Whateva! You could apply that to, say, camping or watching Fraisier, but NOT to hiking Zion National Park!!!

My Bleary-Eyed Self

So late last night my slumber was disturbed by the sound of some sort of pump clicking on and off right outside my door. I laid in my bed with my eyes as wide as they could go, my nostrils flaring, and a look of slight insanity on my face...at least I feel like I looked that way...I couldn't see myself...it was dark... anyways I started counting how often it would click. Seven seconds on, eleven seconds off, seven seconds on, eleven seconds off, etc. How freaking annoying is that???!!! I mean, I think the Chinese have even invented a TOURTURING method using things like that! Anyways, I guess something was wrong with some pipes in our drain system. So this morning a plumber made his way over to our toilet and checked everything out. He was positively puzzled. You know it's bad (and expensive) if your plumber is puzzled at your problem. So finally the guy decided to check the pipes buried in our backyard. It was pretty bad. I guess what had happened when we were putting in my bathroom downstairs the tractor knocked a pipe and broke it. So througout the like...six years since the bathroom was finished plantlife has been making it's way into the pipes and totally choking it out. When I heard this I was not interested. And then when I saw the broken pipe, I was TOTALLY fascinated!! I could have stared at that broken pipe for quite a while, totally mesmerized. There was something about it.

The picture that I posted certainly doesn't do the mesmerizingness justice. Anyways, sad that a plumbing problem was the funkiest part of my day. Excuse the pun. Excuse me. Excuse the second pun!!!!!