#TNWarmUpAdventures... Day 1

One of my best friends ever is moving out to Tennessee in a month.

So during spring break she took some time off work to do some end of birthday month/last Utah (for a while at least) adventures!

Ragnar tagged along.. apparently the drive out to Price is really rough..

We explored Nine Mile Canyon to start with, it was a great combo of hiking and scenic driving.

Brace yourself for lots of petroglyph photos-because I find them fascinating! 

 This dog was all over the place, climbing up steep hills, climbing all over rocks, and just plainly enjoying being a dog!

 This rock is the "Porky Pig" rock.

Also known as "Balanced Rock".

These 2 guys wee looking for this rock & it was our next stop so they followed us.

One guy was super nice, the other one not so much.

They followed us from spot to spot until we took a side road up a side canyon to loose them.

It was getting creepy.

 We thought this one looked like a snooty monkey face...

 This is supposed to be the spider lady teaching the natives to weave...

or 

Bolo man.

 Rare petroglyph of a tree and birds.

We climbed up the side of the mountain to get better photos of this panel.

Totally worth it!

 Yes, that's a real petroglyph with real vandalism on it.

Hiked up to check out the remains of a Fremont Village.

Basically just outlines made of rocks.

 Largest buffalo petroglyph 

 The famous "Great Hunt" Panel

 Even Ragnar enjoyed the petroglyphs!

 Super cute selfie of Ragnar we sent to Derek

 Someone painted this along the canyon wall.

I have mixed feelings about it.

 Ghost Town of Harper that we couldn't even go inside the buildings.

Basically everything in this canyon is owned privately or owned by a mine.

Nine Mile Canyon is really 47 miles.. then you hit a mine and they won't let you go any further. Or at least they wouldn't let us because of the tanker that rolled over and the hazmat team was taking care of things.

3 out of 12

March.

The NON "Dirty" 30 Adventures...

Made a "Match Day" wreath

Lots of things happened on Derek's side of the family:

New Sorensen.

Wedding.

Homecoming.

Madi became obsessed with the camera on my phone

JeNae #32

Madi took this photo.

My Parents #33

Another Golden West 5k for schools

My dad tied Madi's sleeves together.
She was not pleased until I brought out the camera.

Me & Madi "ran" together.

Team Ellie.. My mom walked and my dad pushed Ellie in the stroller.

Tyler & Kris #8
(This was from our Monticello trip last year)

Derek entered a contest for Survivorman.
Here's the link for the video he made:

"Dirty" 30 Adventures... Service and Culture

2 new things I've decided to add to my 
traditional month-long birthday festivities:

Birthday Service Act

&

Cultural Event.

Service Act (and I'm counting towards one of the years' 15 ARK's, even though it was planned). 
Every year the Ogden Nature Center has a tree planting volunteer event. I wanted to participate in it last year but I was running the Zion Half.  So when it came up again, I figured, why not make it a field trip and have the kids get some service in too! And the kids loved it! They worked so hard and had a blast! 
Everyone wants to do this again, which I'm all for.

(The only face you can see if staff)

This little falcon crashed while flying, roughly 200 mph, thus the cast on his wing.

He's so cute

 The Nature Center is also having their spiffy bird house exhibit.  

Here are ones I took a fancy to:

 It's a Harry Potter snitch..

Culture Event:

I wanted to go to an RSL game, but since there was a family thing on their first home game, and the other was on a Sunday... theater ho!

Kris came with me up to Brigham City to see
 "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged".  
It was only $5. 

BEST. $5. SPENT. EVER!

It was funny, interactive, and very creative with some of the things they were explaining.  Example, they summed up all the history plays as if it were a football fame.  The guy in the middle (photo above) was the best of the three. I got picked on more than Kris.

 Of course since we were in Brigham City...

Ph'zookie time!!!!

"Dirty" 30 Adventures... Painting @ Antelope Island

First off, Andrea made me the most yummy-o turkey dinner for my birthday.

It was so good, I was too excited to eat it that I forgot to take a photo of the spread.

So you get the leftover version that Andrea packed for Derek.

Because she's awesome like that.

After dinner we spent some time in the hot tub, watching Mars pass in the night sky, having a great discussion about, well, just about everything.

Secondly, Painting at Antelope Island with Andrea and Amber M.

Mini hike up this trail.. Amber has been super sick so we couldn't go far...
this time...

Random fires across the lake...

Herd of buffalo kept getting closer.. some random guy stomped out of his car and towards the buffalo.  

We think he was trying to start a stampede with his behavior that followed.

It didn't happen.

Nor did he get chased by buffalo.

*le sigh*

Amber. Andrea.

Sunset on the beach.

We made Gladiator jokes.  

And finished off the night with ice cream.
Because my friends love me.