Salt Lake Overlook

We hiked the Salt Lake Overlook today.  I should be relaxing, but I have a hard time relaxing until I catch up on pictures!  Me, mom and dad were the only adults this year. 

Dad lead the group and Jonah wanted to be right behind him.  Jonah did a great job of keeping up.

Caitlyn wanted to come, but I kept telling her that she couldn't complain.  She did awesome and didn't complain at all on the way up.  Amarie was a little nervous at first so Caitlyn stayed back with her and grandma. 

Remember when I was talking about all of the energy I had last week?  Well that is gone!  I had a hard time on the hike.  It is always depressing to see how out of shape I am.  I was having a hard time breathing so I borrowed Dante's inhaler.  Elevation brings on my asthma.  I was totally fine going down, but going up I could feel my chest tightening.  Anyway, I took it slow, but I made it to the top.  I don't think I was too far behind the girls, but the boys had to wait for a while. 

I was tired, but I made it up these rocks in record time when Jonah was screaming and crying for help.  He climbed on the side of the rock and was holding onto this flat rock with his hands, but his feet were dangling on the edge and he was terrified.  Elijah was helping him, but I think if Jonah fell he would have taken Elijah with him. I raced up there and got him off.  It was scary!  Hopefully Jonah learned a lesson from that one.

Caitlyn twisted her ankle on the way down so she had a hard time going down.  I fell and twisted my ankle too.  It was really hurting at first, but I was able to make it down just fine.  It was pretty swollen when I took my shoe off.  I ended up carrying Caitlyn down as much as I could.  I would carry her for a little while and then let her walk a little. EJ was so nice and offered to giver her a piggy back ride.   Some nice lady stopped and gave us an ace bandage. I love nice people!  She seems to be okay now.  I wasn't loving it on the way up, but I'm glad we did it.  After the hike the cousins all divided up to play together and then we are heading back to mom's for a barbecue.  It has been a fun weekend!