Not all who yonder are lost

Have been lazy with blogging again. This week has been pretty busy. My first week of full hsifts, an da bit tiring. Highlight of hte day: seeing two kaibab squirrels playing around during my Nature walk and then having a mama muledeer and her baby walk up right in fron of my group. Needless to say the tourons had a photo field day. Also met the great grandson of the first man to drive a vehicle up to the north rim... pretty neat.

Anyway...

Quite a wonderful weekend.

Had half of Friday off thanks to Robin our awesome boss... headed down to Flagstaff with Jess, Addy, Jake and Kenton for a Yonder Mountain String Band show in the pines. (Picture of the boys on right). Awesome show... and awesome venue. Sort of reminded me of Susquehanna bank center back home except a bit smaller, in the pines, you can get right up to the stage, and you don't have to fear for your life when you're getting there.

Lots of NPS folk there too and we all got a group campsite which was about a 15 minute walk from the venue. Didn't get to hang out too much after the show... slowly turning into an old lady but before and during was tons of fun. However I think the icing on the cake had to be hte civil war battle reenactment when we woke up the next morning haha! The confederates won whilst a bunch of hippies from the yonder concert cheered and took pictures. Very entertaining.

Got to do some real people things and went and . Headed back to Flag after watching the confederates beat all 8 yanks... got some food and did some thriftstore shopping. Made out pretty well... Some heinous sweaters, a unicorn jewelry box, some old school waist high blue pants an da vintage northface fleece from around 1982 :)

Got to do some real people things and went and saw inception. Cool movie. got some sushi, went to a dog friendly bar and listened to some good music and hten headed up to snowboal for some free camping in the forest. Good day.

Headed down to Page on Sunday. Met up with Gibson and some othe NPS peeps, got some food and spent the day on Gibson's boat (the Lady Contumacious haha).

Couldn't fit everyone on the boat so I hung back the first round with Jesse, Addy, Damon and Daisy the dog (one of hte coolest dogs I've ever met I might add). We did some swimming over to a litlte cove and climbed a bit on the sandstone. Got pretty beat up from that. Chilled some more on the beach.. Picture of me and Jesse being beach bums on the Left.

When everyone came back, the four of us got to go out... Had my first wakeboarding experience. Got up after a few tries... Couldn't remember how to steer into the wake from my brief snowboarding days but that's ok. Did much better Sunday than I did on Monday as well. Think I was just super tired the next day. That stuff really takes it out of you.

Spent the night at camp on this beach across the way form Wahweap Marina. Had dinner, chilled by the fire, skinnydipped haha, tried to find shelter when it started Raining...fun night. Went out on the boat a bit more on Monday and headed out of the Powell area around 2 then back up to the N rim after dealing iwht some car issues. Overall...awesome weekend.