i will leave tommorow...

so my newest friend william, called me on tuesday night and said "im gonna be in boulder wednesday, want to go for a hike" of course i did. his plans were to stay wednesday night and leave in the morning heading towards jackson hole WY for the summer. we had a great hike to upper calf creek (one of my favorites especially when its really hot out to jump in) not hot enough for a swim but a good hike for sure.

one of his many fun face pictures. so after the hike we went to kerton (a devotional sing / chant) thing that i do every week. while there i told some friends that we were going on a field trip the next day at school to see a few places where people lived off the grid and used different means for electricity. william wanted to go so he said, i will just leave the next day...

inside grant and sue's place. yep they live in a cave, they are still working on it, and their is still much to get done, the whole cave is 5500 square feet, its HUGE. we really enjoyed hearing about their ideas and seeing their lifestyle.

the bathroom

the view out on of the many big windows. spring is here the trees are blooming. we then headed to roys place ate lunch and saw a little about his home, he uses solar. then back on the bus to fosters to see their windmills. sorry no pictures my camera battery died.

so william had a great time and was glad he stayed to hang out. after the field trip we ran into david holliday and he invited us for dinner on friday, (im thinking well i might go but william will be leaving in the morning) or so we thought.... thats right he thought well "i will just leave a day later, which would be saturday

so we hung out at davids for a while before dinner was ready, we found a fun little place to play on the rocks

william is a rock climber and couldn't resist. he came down because he decided his climbing shoes would be a great idea to go the whole way. so dinner was great, with good friends and great food (thanks jill) we ended up hanging out their all night and into the morning actually. we enjoyed our time. we didn't get to bed till about 1:00 am so we slept in a bit before he would be leaving (or so we thought)

we decided why not one more day. in fact why not another hike. the weather was crazy but we thought it called for a adventure, we bundled up and headed for the mountain. the rain turned to freezing rain, then slush, then snow, but we were up for it. the hike was great we summit ted in about 11 minutes (see picture above) which very well could of been slow due to the heavy winds and blizzard conditions. i now call this hike the "i will leave tomorrow hike" because we laughed at how many times he said those exact words.

back to lower elevation (the wind and snow died down)

just having fun

amazing photo, william spotted it.

after our hike we decided we would go find a good spot to do a little slackline... what is it you ask...

yep its similar to tight rope walking. aaaaahhhhh it was such a good time, i fell off it many many times, tore a hole in my carhartts but all is well, no limbs were lost. (dad notice the blue vest... yep thats your old one)

and here i am a little off balance

william being tricky (trying to make his sister Jo jealous)

and down i go

the drive home

the view i see many a days.

just when you thought our time together was over...

we decided to head out and find a few friends who were camping out for the night, i brought a bunch of fire wood and stuff to make smores, but not just any smores REASES PEANUT BUTTER SMORES!!! they were a hit no one had had them before (except me) we melted the candy cups over hot rocks roasted the marshmallows and wwwwwaaaaaalllllllllllllaaaaaaaa.........

heaven in our mouths!!!!

hanna loving hers

and ben, well he loved his soooooo much by the time i got the camera out he had already scarfed his down.

the night was great. we didn't make it back till around 2:00 in the morning so yes we had to sleep in and guess what... WILLIAM LEFT ON SUNDAY

so his short stay turned into 4 nights 5 days. we had a blast. thanks for coming william if you miss the desert or me and my adventures come back really soon.