Moab

Disclaimer: This blog post is going to be long and boring with no point really but to describe my trip to Moab. Sorry you guys. haha

Staff had a long weekend for the 4th... a few of us decided to head to Moab, Utah. It was awesome! Me, three other girls (Liesl a counselor from California, Andrea a counselor who goes to school in Michigan but lives in Illinois, and Lindsey a cook from Texas) and then three guys (Nate Cole and Nate Johnson - two counselors from Oklahoma, and Nick) drove over Thursday night after cleaning camp.

The two nights we were there we ended up sleeping on some random campsites we found down dirt roads. I'm not so sure it was completely legal to do without permits but we never got into trouble. It was so nice and warm that we were able to just sleep under the stars (which were beautiful!).

On Friday I went mountain biking with the girls, later in the day we went on a couple hikes in Arches National Park, and we all went out to eat for pizza. During the afternoon it was super hot so we found some random green park in the middle of town and slack lined, slept, and read there for a while.

Saturday us girls went skydiving!! It was so awesome and surreal - I thought I would be scared and that my stomach would drop but once we left the plane I was pretty calm. I jumped tandem which means my instructor was attached to me, which was kind of awkward, but I got lucky and didn't have the creeper instructor like a couple of my friends did. Later in the day we went back to the park, went swimming and tanning by the Colorado River, did a short bike ride along a paved river trail, and then drove home back to camp after dark.

It was a great weekend, except when I got frustrated with the boys, but all around we all loved hanging out together outside of camp.

lindsey and me before our jump

Me coming down in my parachute

Some beautiful Moab scenery along the CO river as we drove in the morning to the aiport

Love you guys!!