Church Rocks & Bearclaw Poppy

This morning, Corey went climbing early with me, which was nice cause I was a little bugged last night cause we were going to go yesterday, but he never got back to me and left me hanging. I was grateful he got up early with me. It had to be early cause I was leaving at 8:30 for a my first ever Girls' Trip with neighbors. I'm also grateful that he's been holding down the fort today and will again tomorrow (with Abi's help) while I here. I'm in St. George for Stacey's birthday. She arranged this whole thing an it's been great so far. I drove down with Kirstin and Becca, and we met up in Cedar City with Jill who was driving solo, and then I joined her for the rest of the drive to St. George so she wasn't alone. She's also one of my favorite people. We all met at Paula's house (member of the ward who has another house in St. George) and geared up then went for a ride at 2:45 pm on the Prospector trail and Church Rocks.

Clockwise starting from me at the top - Me, Jess, Katie, Paula, Jill, Stacey, Charmane, and Kirstin in the bottom left. There were more girls who hiked the Red Reef Trailhead (Ashley, Becca, Aubrey,  Michelle, & Maryanne) while we were biking. I loved loved loved the landscape. 

Admiring the hills and mountains on our way out - 

and sharper shadows when we were on our way back to the cars - 

Me shredding the trail, haha. Katie took that pic. Jill behind me.

So that was fun and wasn't too hard, which is good cause we're doing Gooseberry tomorrow. At 5:45 pm we hurried out before the sunset to do a beginner trail with the ladies who had gone hiking earlier, so they could try biking. We did Bearlaw Poppy with the first time bikers - 5.50 miles, 47 minutes. I did not get any pics of that cause my stupid phone is out of storage. Jill took a few pics bit before sunset - 

I gotta figure this phone thing soon, it's stupid and driving me nuts. I'm glad my phone did ok recording my stats on strava. After Bearclaw Poppy, we went to the Airbnb to get our swimsuits, then back to Paula's house for yummy pizzas and a salad for dinner and pickleball and swimming. I played Pickleball with Jen (below, we won!) vs Michelle and Katie. 

Katie took that pic. We did two games, Katie and I vs. Jen and Michelle for the 2nd game and we won that too, NOT that I'm competitive. I did some swimming laps in the pool to stretch out after pickleball, and that felt nice. Boy, I did a lot of recreation today! Climb, bike, bike, pickleball, and swim! At Paula's before dinner, I called everyone via messenger to show them what we were doing (cause I couldn't take a pic to send) and where I was. I felt like I was back in the Martin's house in Brazil. It was gorgeous with palm trees, a slide, pool, hot tub and pickle ball court. I didn't show them inside, but that was even more amazing. How fun to have a home like that someday! It was fun to say hi to Katharine!  She's doing good. Corey's working hard. Abi's been doing good playing mom for me. It's been a great day, and were back at the Airbnb (some apartments north of the St George Worldmar) and I took a shower and now we're heading to bed. Most of the ladies are upstairs in a kid bunk bed area, Jill and I are sharing a king. I warned her that I snore, and she said she moves around a lot, so we'll see how we do haha!