Moab Trip!

Moab Trip!!! I went with my ward and I convinced Jon to go with me (and I'm so glad because it wasn't really the kind of thing that would be fun by yourself). I sorta made this goal before I ever decide to get married to get the most of my single time and one of the things I wanted to do was go on a singles ward trip (check!). One fun thing Jon and I did was we went horseback riding and it was really fun. My horse was named Boulder. Our wrangler told me "Boulder is solid. We'd put an 8 year old on him". I don't know how I was supposed to feel about that, like if I just came off as someone who didn't have the confidence to ride a 'not solid' horse, lol but I am glad I got him because I was really nervous. I was super excited and it was my idea. Jon and I have this list of things we've wanted to do, in fact I'll probably post the list on here, and that's been one of the few things still on our list after a year. Jon loved his horse so much that days later he still told me he missed his horse, Harley. Here are some horse pictures:

My favorite picture is the one of Jon where he looks like the horse is bucking and Jon has got the reins in one hand. Yeah, that's my Jon, he's tough :D
Jon drove to Moab and I studied Pathology and did homework aloud with his help. Then when we got there (my friend Melony also road with us) and set up our tent in the dark with help from some friendly strangers and then went to Denny's. It was about the worst service I've ever had. They got our drink orders twice, messed them up anyway, didn't bring us our food for 45 minutes and didn't bring us the check (we had to get it ourselves) and no service the whole time. It was bad. Apparently everyone who went there all weekend said it was terrible. The next morning we went horseback riding, then went shopping on main street. We got dinner back at camp and waited around for the devotional. Unfortunately it rained so that got canceled and our tent had no rain protection and everything was sopping. I was tempted to just get a hotel room, apparently the whole bishopric did. Most of our ward went and saw Robin Hood that night, but Jon and I missed it because we were sitting in my car, hiding from the rain and studying and talking about pathology. We got hot chocolate and made engineer-ish adjustments to our ghetto tent. I managed to sleep warm that night and dry. Jon had to sleep in my car because he had just slept next to our tent the night before, but that wasn't possible in the rain. Well, at least not desirable. And the next day we were going to go river rafting and I was really excited because I'd  never been, but due to miss communications we weren't able to find the group so we didn't get to go, we just drove home. Here are pictures of Jon outside my tent, and then Jon hanging out while we looked for the rafting people.