Camping, Bowling and Seven Peaks

We wanted to go to Provo one last time to go to Seven Peaks.  Courtney and I wanted to show the boys where we had camped while they were at scout camp.  So we made plans and drove to Payson to the Nebo Loop.

We left Friday morning so we would be able to go to Seven Peaks on Friday and Saturday but...it was raining so they closed Seven Peaks.  We went to the campground and set up camp in the same spot Courtney and I had stayed in.

 Courtney's tent is the green one on the left.  Our tent is the blue one in the center.  Ethan's tent is the orange one on the right.

Since our plans were frustrated, we decided to go bowling at BYU.  It was so quiet and we had a lot of fun.

Then we decided to go to the movies.  We ended up at the Shops at the Riverwoods where the boys were watching one movie and Courtney and I were watching another one.  Before it was time to go to the movies, we went to Provo Beach to look around.  It was great and we want to go back to play there sometime.

Here is beach babe Courtney:

After the movie was over, we bought KFC (a family camping tradition) and went back to the campground.

Ethan made a fire and we had s'mores until it was time to go to bed.

That's when it got interesting.  We noticed some pretty dark clouds coming in and about 10 minutes or so after we got into our tents (Courtney in one, Ethan in another, Bryan and I in the last) it began to pour...hard!  Bryan and I sat up, unzipped a bit of the rain fly and tried to listen to see if Courtney was yelling.  She was all alone in her tent so we were afraid that she would be afraid.  We couldn't really hear anything but thought we may have heard her yell.  When the rain died down a bit we could hear her yelling so Bryan got out of our tent, grabbed Courtney out of her tent and threw her (almost literally) into our tent.  He then climbed in.  We yelled over to Ethan to see how he was doing and he said he was fine and asked if Courtney wanted to stay in his tent.  She was thrilled so Bryan, once again, got out of our dry tent, grabbed all of Courtney's stuff, took it to Ethan's tent and then took Courtney into Ethan's tent.  Bryan was soaked by the time he finished but everyone slept well and were dry.

The next morning I was up early to take a walk and this is what crossed my path:

I went back to camp and made a fire but the fire pit was really wet so it wasn't a great fire.

Then we packed up and were ready to go to Seven Peaks for the day.  You can faintly see the dry spots from under our tent and Courtney's tent.  Ethan's tent was totally wet underneath but he was all dry inside.  Great tents but we had to really clean them off when we got home.

We drove to Provo and went to Seven Peaks and had a blast!  The kids loved swinging on the rope swing and had a lot of fun going down the slides.  Bryan didn't have too much fun because his tube flipped him and then he ended up with burns on his ankle and elbow from another ride.  But we all had fun in the wave pool and other things.  Since we got in early, we had plenty of time to enjoy things before it got too crowded.

Before we left we went by and saw Andrew, Jessica and Clara.  Courtney loves holding her baby cousins.

We also went and saw the memorial on Center Street in Provo for soldiers.  Ethan loved the big cannon.

We also went to see the museum at BYU.  Last time we were there, the boys went to an origami exhibit and wanted to show it to us, but it was gone.  We went through to see what was on display anyway and it was fun.

Then it was time for us to go home.  It was a great trip.