And More Havasupai...

After we hiked out we started the driving back to Vegas. This required that we go back over Hoover Dam and yet another opportunity to use dam jokes... We wanted to get out and see the dam but we couldn't find any dam parking on the dam road. We did find an area which looked out over the dam with a short rock wall. All over the wall was stenciled "Do Not Climb On Wall" so seeing this of course Greg jumped up on the wall and started walking on it. As soon as he did a dam policeman passed on the road behind us and using a megaphone said, "Get off the wall". Greg immediately did. We kept wondering what the chances were that that policeman would be there at that moment and also wishing that he had said, "Get off the dam wall instead." From the lookout we could see the lots of dam tourists, and the dam turbines, Kirk took so many dam pictures. We kind of wanted to get a dam tour and use all our dam jokes to annoy the tourguide, but we were tired from our hike so we just decided to go back to Vegas instead.

Back in Vegas, we took showers and I took a dip in the pool at Kirk's apt. Then after much deliberation we went to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory. Our stomachs had shrunk during the trip though with all the camper meals we had been eating so we could all only eat a few bites of our entrees... It was kind of anticlimatic after having dreamt of real food for the past three days. After dinner we went back to Kirk's apt to get some sleep. We got a text from the other group around 2 a.m. in the morning telling us they had gotten out of the canyon but were falling asleep on the road and were getting a hotel.

On Sunday we slept in and then went to church and arrived back at the apt in time to watch the other campers return.

We then all climbed in our respective cars and began the journey home. We had brought walkie-talkies with us on the trip to communicate between cars and also for when we got to the Grand Canyon and our cell phones didn't work anymore. They were now out of batteries though so we had to find another way of communicating between cars. So we wrote the other car notes. They were: "I like you", "but this isn't going to work out", "You're cute", "This relationship is so one sided." The other car never responded to our notes.

On the drive back my little sister and I also had a dtr. For those of you who don't know, we have been having problems... for a while now. Once when we were visting teaching Ellie we got into an argument. Ellies asked me the next day if we were going to get a divorce... probably. As we talked things out though I think I came to the root of our problem. Mary is just a happy person trying to make me happy, and I am just a sad person trying to make her sad. Greg was laughing so hard as we were dtr'ing that I thought he was going to drive off the road. Eventually we did make it back to Provo though, and the adventure ended...

You know those people who go on trips and then come back with stories that they think are interesting but you really don't care. Yeah...

Check out Ellie and Kirk's blogs for more coverage of the trip. Kirk did steal all the photos for his blog from mine though, so I don't know if we should endorse that. Matt may someday blog about the trip but don't hold your breath.