Tie-Dye

Eliza had a fun idea for everyone to do tie dye shirts while we were up here at Park City. We did it today. Katharine applying some sun block while she waited as we started to set up.

She's been quite generous with the sunblock on herself. She does a decent job at applying it though. 

This was my first time every tie dying a shirt. Here's how we did it:

Step 1 - get a shirt. 

Step 2 - soak it (I brought some empty laundry buckets from home, which came in handy for that step.)

Step 3 - twist it up in desired shape (there was a paper to show us different techniques for the desired patterns). 

Step 4 - wrap it with rubber bands. 

Step 5 - apply dye. 

Oh, and Step 4.5 - put on gloves to protect your hands. Ethan skipped that step cause he thought it would wash off, but it didn't, and so his hands are currently very blue. The Marriott management was anxious about us staining the pool deck, and thus so was I, but we were vigilant and finished without making any stains on the deck or their wood tables. I was on high alert when the dyes came out, so I didn't get any pics of that, but Nancy did, I'll see if I can get those from her. We'll see how they turn out!

After finishing shirts, Corey and I went on a ride. On Monday, Corey made plans for us to take a long ride with Kyle, and maybe some of the older kids, and to have Hyrum film us a bit with his drone. The plan was to leave at 11:30 today, but that got pushed back to 12:30 cause Kyle was with a client, then it was too late for Kyle cause he had to be back in SL at 4, and it was also too late for Christian, who had a work call at 3. So then it was just Corey and me but we waited until after Christian was done. He came but said he'd rather RUN it than bike it. Um, wow. We left at 4:40, giving us a 15 min start ahead of Christian. So he ran over 11 miles up the mountain side like it was nothing. He followed the trail we were biking on (Armstrong) and with our head start, he caught up to us before we reached Midmountain. And we were going hard, like we were being chased. We chatted for a minute at the midmountain > pinecone connect, and then he ran ahead. Riding Pinecone was brutal. I got a PR, but I was dying. I would have been cursing if I was a cursing person. Instead I was just yelling and grunting. My legs were burning so bad. I probably should have put on music, but instead Corey and I were enjoying the sounds of nature and talking, or trying to talk when I wasn't yelling. It was a long and merciless climb. Christian got to Guardsman about 15 minutes before us where he met Hyrum, who brought him a bike and brought us some water (I sent a few messages pleading for aid, cause again, I was dying). Hyrum got a little bit of drone footage (we could hear it overhead) and after more water and a pic - 

...we biked back to the top of pinecone, aka up puke hill, ugh, I walked it. 22.09 miles, total, 3783 ft elevation gain. Moving time 3:45:51, my strava cut out before the decent, so those were from Corey's strava stats. My strava for the climb to the top of Puke Hill said I got 18 achievements, one of which was "3rd best elevation gain" at 3,237 (Corey's said we got 3,783 which included Puke Hill, which would have been a new PR - my previous PRs were when I rode up to Alta, which was 3696 elevation, and more recent PR when we biked from Park City to Millcreek (Jul 8 was 3697 elevation - haha just one foot more than Alta.) One segment on Pinecone was called "Pain Cave". That was probably one of the parts I hated. 1.57 miles, PR at 28 min and 34 seconds, ugh! We got back at 9, barely made it with visibility. 2 laps (4 lengths) in the pool. Cousins enjoying the babies - Alix with Alvie, and Rhyan getting a smile from Mary!

They have been starting to give us little grins and smiles, it is so cute. Babies are magic.