It's been a relatively eventful past week, with plenty of rain, Indiana Jones, and just enough biking to get us through the Memorial Day weekend. Eric and I got to go see Indiana Jones 4 at the midnight showing on Wednesday night. It was a fun movie, but kind of weird. Not exactly what I was expecting, but lots of fun nonetheless. We also just got back from Megan and Jared's where we watched Temple of Doom. They're going to be watching The Last Crusade soon, so we might join. We bought the first 3 Indiana Jones movies from Target just before we went to see the fourth one since they were only $10 each (yes!). I'm excited. I love those movies, silly though they may be.
The weather wasn't as nice as we had hoped for this weekend. We wanted to take advantage of the 3-day weekend and go camping but since it was cold and rainy we decided it would have to wait. Goblin Valley isn't going anywhere anytime soon, and it will still be there later in the summer. We didn't want to just sit inside or stay in Provo all weekend, so we did go down to Nine Mile Canyon and do a little biking there. There is a fairly maintained dirt road that runs all the way through the canyon, so we drove about 25 miles in to a small day use area and then rode our bikes about another 5.5 miles in, and then back. The canyon was really pretty, and not what I was expecting. There was a lot of rock art there that was really interesting to look at. Of course, we took a few pictures for posterity.
Saturday evening we went out with Eric's parents to Eureka - a place I had never been to nor even heard of before. Apparently it was a mining boom town in the late 1800s which consequently lost a great deal of its population once they weren't finding a whole lot of silver there anymore. We drove on some back roads to this really remote area because Eric's dad wanted to do some shooting, but we ended up just walking around and looking in some old mine shafts. And Eric tried to help a lamb through a fence to its mother but it found a way before he could get to it (there were a lot of sheep there...). We were afraid Mick (the dog) was going to fall in a mine shaft. We also saw a mummified rabbit in an abandoned shed. Interesting.
It was a pretty good week/weekend. We bought a huge Utah atlas thing today at Border's so we'll be able to do even more exploring this summer...or at least as is possible in our little Malibu. What luck!
3 comments:
nice pictures. eric must have been hungry...
you have such adventurous lives! what fun.
Sounds like you're having a fun time with your bikes (and each other). I think I've been to Eureka, or somewhere like it. It was somewhere on the west side of Utah Lake, anyhow. Long long ago, my friends and I drove out to these mines, and we were going to explore except that a) it was getting dark, and b) we had no flashlight. I tried to see how effective my camera flash was at lighting things up, but even that didn't show us very far into the mine. So we gave it a miss. Later, when I got the pictures developed, the one I took of the mine had two glowing red dots in the dark! Or maybe just one. But two sounds creepier. Anyway, we decided we were glad we didn't go into the mine.
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