Monday, September 17, 2012

Why we are never leaving the house Pt. II

Pretty much the entire weekend was spent on the couch. I was sick. justin ran a marathon saturday (i was supposed to run it but he did it for me. true love. he ran a 3:25 without really training, the most he had ran before that was 13 miles. crazy boy). So we were both incapacitated on the couches all weekend. It was kind of a nice change of pace though, to just relax together. 
Here is a picture of justin in the marathon. I rode my bike next to him from mile 19 to the finish.
He is amazing. 

anywhoo, as promised. here is part II of "why we are never leaving the house"

Last saturday we decided we really needed to take advantage of the cooler weather and put our mountain bikes to use. We picked out a trail justin found online, it was about 16 miles long.
We got up there and it was such a blast, it was a steep climb, but we were feeling good. Then things took a turn for the worse.
i ran out of water about halfway up.
we took a wrong trail that ended up going straight up a huge mountain. 
then we had to go straight down a mountain to get to the destination: Old Ephraim's grave
(old ephraim is supposedly the last grizzly bear to live in Utah)
By this time i was super grouchy about not having anymore water (anyone who knows me, knows that lack of food and water is the worst possible thing that can happen to me). there were people picnicking at old ephraim's grave and i wanted to ask them for water, but justin felt weird about it. 
before we left a little kid went up to his mom and said:

little kid: Mom!! what should i do with the rest of my drink cause i can't take it on the 4-wheeler? should i just pour it out?

Mom: Yeah, just pour it out on the ground

he then proceeded to pour it out on the ground, i watched longingly, licking my parched lips. 

so then we took off, we had to ride a mile up the steepest road to connect to the other trail that would take us down to our car. we thought we found the right trail to go down on. it was so overgrown, and there were spots where you couldn't even see the trail because it was so faded. the whole time i was thinking "this seriously is the most ridiculous trail."
then we got to a point where we couldn't see the trail at all.
then i threw up from dehydration
then i started crying
then justin told me that he realized that if we were ever going hungry HE would have to be the one to keep my spirits up.
which was exactly what i wanted to hear right then....

so i took out the map and realized we were not even on a trail, we were on a ridge, and the trail we were supposed to be on was in a canyon below us. 
I told justin i thought we should just hike straight down the mountain.
So we did.
When we got to the bottom and finally got onto the right trail i was so so so happy. we got to a river and i just drank straight out of that thing. 
i didn't care about gardia at this point.
it tasted sooooo good.
then we went home and pigged out on snowcones and food.
what should have been a 4 hour bike ride turned into a 8 hour ride.
as always, i can say it's gonna be a good story for our kids to hear.
This was before i was grouchy.



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