Corey and I did a 7am bike ride in Corner Canyon this morning. We did CLARKS. It was my choice. I hated it, but it was good. I hadn't done it in long enough that I forgot how horrible it was, long enough to me to feel like trying and once we got on the trail it was too late to go back. Total ride was 5.08 miles, did it in 45 minutes. I got a 2nd best for the climb from the bridge to bench (1.08 in 16:29) so that is good.
The young women in our neighborhood are all up the canyon for a backpacking over nighter tonight. They parked somewhere up Big Cottonwood Canyon and are hiking up to Desolation lake, where they will camp for the night. Abi, Lily, Sophi and Natalie did a good job mostly getting ready on their own. I helped them find backpacks to borrow yesterday and then today Abi came to Costco with me to get them food. Abi, Sophi, and Natalie are having the same meals (bagles and cream cheese for dinner and breakfast) and a generous helping of snacks and junk food for their trail lunch tomorrow. Lily is having something different and more healthy: food storage freeze dried meals from downstairs. She'll be having chicken dumplings and stroganoff and some hummus and veggies for her trail lunch. Good job Lily. She's been doing good with eating healthy. I shall strive to follow her lead. After our trip to Costco, I said I'd braid their hair, but instead I went bouldering at 3pm (cause I knew I wouldn't be able to later tonight with all my girls/sitters gone...) so then I barely made it back in time to drive them over, let alone braid their hair. I hurried and braided Lily's and Natalie's. Sophi and Abi said they'd be ok with ponytails. Lily didn't love the look, but wanted it for practical reasons. I drove them over to the church at 4. Lily was hiding her face to not allow me to take pics of her.
I was inspired by the girls getting up into the mountains, and so I decided I'd take ODPK up to Silver Lake for a walk around the boardwalk trail. I told Corey of our plan and he drove up after work and met us there. We saw fish, living and dead, in the water. The boys were more intrigued by the dead ones. "Look at that one! It doesn't have a head!!!"
As we got to the west side of the lake, which was in the shadow of the mountain, the mosquitos were sooo horrible.
Some people turned around, we pushed through but were flailing our arms smacking ourselves and each other to kill them. Owen was telling me something when I saw one land on his forehead, and I looked at him intently in the face and I walked toward him and smacked it dead. He thought I was listening... nope "You had a mosquito..." "Ow..." haha. We also formed a line formation with each person watching their front and the back of the person in front of them. The bites weren't too bad, but I should keep bug spray in the car. Near where the mosquito swarms attacked the most, the kids were excited to climb up this big slab!
Made them feel like they were able to get above them a little bit. Peter felt a little scared at the top and called for help. I went up to guide him and he found his way off without much intervention. Good job Pete! So it was fun. We saw our friends Monica and Rob on a walk around the lake. They are our friends that lived down the street from us at the Crosswood house and our boys played with each other a lot. I remember Hyrum and Travis esp being good friends. They moved into this house while they built a new home, and they were here for a year while we were in Chile, and their house finished right when we moved back. Just looking back at old pics... I should really clean up the front yard, yikes. Anyway, it was perfect and miraculous timing. Rob had been up there fishing and she was doing walking laps. It was so fun to see them and catch up on their kids. She offered to take a photo of all of us.
No date night tonight - we going to head to bed soon. We might try to go out tomorrow.
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