If You Could Hike to Kolob

On Thursday night, Chris & Sara Poole and Gary & I drove up to Kolob Reservoir. We were supposed to meet up with Tyler & Nicole, who had drove up earlier that day and already found a camp site. It's a good thing we weren't hiking because we drove forever and could not find them. We drove on some crazy bumpy roads, looking for a bridge that meant we were close. We found a bridge, but it looked like it would fall apart the second we drove on it, like the ones in National Treasure. So we drove some more. We finally gave up and pulled off to the side of the road and camped there for the night. 

We roasted some mallows on a couple of charcoals. It wasn't quite like having a real camp fire, but I guess there was a rule that we couldn't have one. The trick is to get close to charcoals, but not quite touch them with your mallows...not the most effective way to get smores.

We had our good camera with us and got some good pics of the stars and then some other stuff the next morning. I love that camera. Some car lights messed with this one, so it had some weird light in it, but it kind of looks cool.

The next morning we found Tyler & Nicole. They had actually gone over that crazy bridge; it turned out that didn't look so rickety in the daylight. It was then that we found out that they had had a visitor that snuck in their tent the night before...a huge skunk! Luckily no nothing was sprayed.

During the day, I hung out on the beach with Sara and did some homework, and everyone else played in the water. Later on in the day, I joined them for the fun, and we took some awesome pics of everyone jumping off some rocks into the water, with Tyler & Nicole's waterproof camera (sadly the camera drowned the next day when they went to Gunlock).

We were going to stay another night, but we decided it was unpatriotic to skip out on fireworks, so we went back through Zion and stopped to take some pics on the way back to St. George. 

When we got back in town we found a good place to watch the fireworks, set up our camera, and then came the fireworks. It was a great 4th of July!