Highlights from the Last Two Weeks

My mother mentioned yesterday while I was on the phone with her that it makes her sad when there is not a new post of my blog (this was after me telling her that my sister's old blog posts makes me sad). Touché mama, here is your post. Two weeks ago Thursday we went to the most recent Kiss Country five dollar concert, except for it is really six dollars. We sat at almost the top of the ampitheater in Woodward Park surrounded by people in country clothes and a large group in Metal Mulisha clothing (don't ask me why they wore these clothes to a country concert). It was a really good concert and we enjoyed the music.

The weekend before last, we went camping with Chase's mom and brother, his dad joined us the next day. We camped on a rocky hill looking over a roaring waterfall and Dinkey Dome, which Chase wanted to climb, but it ended up being really far away. Instead, Chase, Sam, and their father climbed on the numerous boulders. Chase was trying to make sure that Sam would not fall on the sharp tree stump right below him in this picture.

Here is a view of the waterfall below our camp.

This rock looks a lot like the boulders in the Buttermilks by Bishop. Chase tried to climb it two weeks ago and even though his father offered a hundred dollars as a reward if he could climb it, he couldn't do it. We went back this past Saturday and he made it all the way to the top! I was very proud.
After Chase was done climbing boulders on our camping trip two weekends ago, his family went home while he and I went to Huntington Lake to see the sailing regatta. We got out of the truck and I asked Chase if he had the keys and then slammed the door shut. Yes, I locked the keys in the truck. We struggled for twenty minutes with some of the rock climbing equipment, and then two huge Mexican guys walked up. They asked us if we had locked the keys in the truck, and then they told us they had an "extra key". It turns out that one of them had a wedge, a blow up wedge, and a long hooked rod. They asked us if Lehi bites (we had the in-laws very friendly Australin Shephard with us who does not bite anyone), then set about opening the truck. After about five minutes of struggling, they decided to grab the keys with the hook and fished them right out. We were very grateful.

Until next time (which will be very soon because I have some other news to share)