Our Fantabulous Memorial Day Adventure!!

With all the stress at work I knew we had to get away for the weekend, for something wild and fun! We almost went to San Francisco, and then almost up to Canada, and then decided to head south. To Escalante, Utah to be specific. I'd never been and there was a canyon we'd been wanting to backpack. The drive went fairly quick, of course with a stop at a creamery with "the world's best ice cream", and guess what? They were right!! They had a flavor called Blue Mint that was truly divine!!
We decided to hike Coyote Gulch... a fabulous choice...


gettin' ready to start off!


my love Jordo, and me


let's get this show on the road...


if only we'd known about this special spot before... we would have pushed and spent the first night under this half dome, it was gorgeous!!


just one of the many waterfalls along the trail, they were all so beautiful


jordo doin' his best happy dance at coyote arch... he's obviously a very talented dancer!! ;)


definitely my favorite shot of the trip, hallo there!


a beautiful small flower growing on the canyon wall under a ledge...

well, there were many more photos of course, but I know you can only take so much! It was a fabulous trip, of course the guide book mislead us on how to exit, thereby leading us to take a different exit route, which took us over unplanned areas with less drinking water than desired, not to mention it was during the hottest part of the day, and then my love had to hike all the way back to the car, leaving me on the side of the road with the packs because he thought if I walked any further I would die of heat exhaustion and dehydration, he might just have been right... and then... (yes it does go on) as we were heading out, in our car, we ran into two hikers whose group had taken a wrong turn in the canyon and came out much further down than expected, and they had locked their keys in a different car at the original trail head, so....... we took them back to get their car, but we were almost out of gas and had to coast down every hill to get back to the freeway, and barely made it, running on fumes... and then ended the fabulously divine backpacking adventure!!!!!

We had the time of our lives!! Hope you all had a great weekend too, love ya!