Honeymoon

I know that I definitely blog at random times about things that have clearly been months away. Our honeymoon was so fun, and I wanted to write a little bit about what we did. It was low key, and just absolutely perfect for the two of us. 

The first night we stayed at a little hotel in Ogden Canyon, called the Alaskan Inn. It was a beautiful hotel set in the canyon.                                                                                                                   The next day we headed to Park City to stay for a few nights at a Marriot right on Main St. 

We walked along the street going into the little shops and finding cute stores and cafe's. We had to walk through a really small, sparsely lit alley way. This is supposed to be our scared face. 

We went to the Olympic ski jumping place. We got to tour the building and see all the interesting things that had in town for the Salt Lake Olympics. The ski jumpers would go down huge jumps and dive into the water. It was very fun and entertaining to watch. 
We took a ski lift to the top of one of the ski slopes and hiked around for awhile. We had such a gorgeous view from where we were. 
Next we headed down to Southern Utah to stay at Dixie's motel and go to various places. Our first stop was the Grand Canyon. Caleb had never been, and I definitely think it is one place you have to visit, at least once in your life. I just love it there. 


We were so perplexed by this sign. Pump may not automatically WHAT?
We wanted to do the Subway Hike in Zion. We got a permit, but, unfortunately, I had gotten the stomach flu and so we got a late start. I wanted to go despite being sick, since I had never done it before. We started at 2. When you get to the parking you are supposed to car pool so you have one car at the end of the hike, and one at the beginning. We only had one car, so we hitchhiked up with a very nice couple.

The Subway is a hike that you are supposed to follow the pile-ons until you reach the canyon. We must have missed a few pile ons, because after a few hours we were lost.  At one point we were on the top of a ledge and had to slide on our bums down. I slipped and just about broke my shoulders and scratched up my arms. It was so funny now that I think about it, but while we were on the hike I remember being SO scared that we were going to die in back country Zion. 

We decided that we might have figured out where we were going, so we started on down a path again. After walking for twenty minutes we got to a 100 foot ridge. I started crying and Caleb felt so bad. He then decided that even if we were to find the canyon we wouldn't be able to find our way through it in the dark. We started back the way we came, hoping we would be able to find the trailhead and get back to where we started. 

When we made it back to the parking lot we remembered that our car was parked 7 miles away. Tired and sore we started our hike down the road. Eventually we saw some headlights. I immediately got so scared. It was just like the scene from a scary movie. 

He pulled over and knew exactly what had happened. He gave us a lift back to our car and we were so grateful. It was such a funny day. By the time we got back to our hotel room we were so pooped. 

It was such a fun trip and we really enjoyed ourselves. It was a great way to start off our marriage. We have had many more fun adventures and look forward to having many more in our life together.