Scott took a picture of a spider web on Posy Lake.

Posey Lake up north of Escalante in Utah wound up being Brooke’s favorite campsite thus far.  The only caveat was that to get to the campsite you have to go up a gravel road for fifteen miles.  It took us forty-five minutes to get up the road yesterday and a half hour to get down today.  The van was surfing.  Scott said, “What I really love about gravel roads is that once you get off of them you feel like you are floating like a Cadillac.”

We are headed to Red Canyon for Scott to get in a bike ride. The kids rode around while we waited for Scott to get geared up.

After dropping Scott off at the Thunder Mountain Trail I took the kids up to the paved trail.  I thought it might be wise to jog rather than ride my bike.  Cody cried one and a half minutes into the ride.  I pushed us ten minutes one way and then had us turn around.  Brooke was Miss Speedy on the way out, but on the way back she turned into a snail.  I was pushing Cody as I jogged the way out and back, but literally one minute after Brooke called Cody “cry baby” on the way back, Brooke was crying.  So I pushed one kid and then the other and sometimes both at the same time.  It was only a twenty-five minute jog, but I had the added bonus of pushing the kids and running full speed to catch up on the down hills.  I know where we live in Illinois is flat, but it takes just a short jog on a “flat” trail out West to remind us that you really can’t understand flat until you come to Illinois.

After our ride/ jog we packed up and headed to pick up Scott. He had an amazing ride. Scott took twenty-eight pictures and two movies in his one hour and fifteen minute ride.

To Zion we go!