Utah Trip Day 2

On Friday our adventure began in the evening. Barb's ward was having an activity near Utah Lake at a ropes course. She invited all of us to attend because many people in her ward were out of town or not going. The ropes course was situated in a grove of very tall cotton wood trees next to the river. It was beautiful and very green. In Utah, when things are beautiful, green and next to a river, that means MOSQUITOES!!!! These bugs were viscous! We put on bug repellent not only on all of our exposed extremities but also on our clothes. Brent said the mosquitoes could bite through your clothing. I didn't believe him. It just didn't sound possible. But he was right. Grant didn't get his shirt sprayed and he had a half a dozen bites on his back. Brent had several bites through his thick socks. Isn't that crazy!

Well, the ropes course was amazing. There was a zip line, rock wall, a swing that you would swing about 30 feet off of the ground, a leap of faith jump, canoeing and more. We participated in all of it.



Here is Grant going down the zip line. The video is sideways. I didn't realize that I was shooting it sideways and there is no way to rotate it 90 degrees. BUMMER! All of our videos are like this. So just turn your monitor 90 degrees and it will look normal!

We also went canoeing on the river. Mitchell and Grant had their own canoe and had trouble steering.

Brent and I had Matthew and Benjamin come with us in our canoe.

I was at the front of the boat but I wasn't in charge of steering, Brent was. It was pretty easy to navigate down the river but much more challenging to get back up the river when we were going against the current.

The first thing Mitchell did when we go there was the leap of faith. This is an activity where you climb up a tree to a landing. He was about 20 feet or more from the ground. Then you leap off of the platform to try and grab a metal ring that was suspended in the air. Many people miss the ring or are afraid to jump. Mitchell, however, caught the ring on his first try and second try. He was pretty cocky about how easy it was so one of the instructors told him to do it blind folded. This means that when he reached the landing on the tree he would put on the blind fold and jump off this high platform and try to catch the ring. You will need to watch the video clip to see if he made it!