Our Road Trip!!!

Finally, here are pictures from our amazing adventure! We left at 3:30AM Friday June 13th and drove to Disneyland. The next day we spent literally all day (opening to closing) from 8AM to midnight at both Disneyland and California Adventure. We were so exhausted that Sunday we rode a few rides and then met a ton of characters, like MICKEY MOUSE!

Sunday afternoon we took off for Las Vegas, NV. We toured hotel after hotel walking for miles within each building. It was incredible! One hotel actually had gondolas INSIDE the hotel! We stayed at the Excalibur in our chateau. To truly experience Vegas we did see one show, Steve Wyrick, a magician who was pretty amazing. No time to gamble, on to Grand Canyon on Tuesday morning.

On our way to the Grand Canyon we stopped and took a tour of the Hoover Dam.

Grand Canyon is where we wish we had more time to backpack down into the canyon and camp for a day or two, but it was still fun to look from the top. We did hike about 1/4 to 1/2 of the way down the canyon one day. We were able to find a FREE camping spot just outside of the park.

We arrived at Bryce Canyon that Thursday and hiked the next day all around the hoodoos and such. Also, camping there...

Zion National Park took up our Friday afternoon and almost all day Saturday. This was our favorite part of the trip, which wasn't even planned. We were able to go "canyoneering" up the Narrows of the canyon which is hiking up or down (we went up) stream in the river with steep canyon walls on each side of you. There was no risk of flash floods since there were no storms or rain reported within at least a 200 mile radius. This is another place we'd love to go back and backpack at the top of the Narrows and hike down them (12ish miles). There were a few people doing that and they absolutely loved it.

Saturday late afternoon we took off for home and drove from Zion National Park to some little town in Idaho where they carded Leisha to make sure she was at least 18 years old! Apparently, they thought Randy might be trying to take advantage of her! HAHAHAHA!

Overall, we had a blast and can't wait to go on more exciting adventures together!!

Updates...

I'm not very good about updating our blog yet, I apologize; but here are the latest updates.

1) Our road trip was amazing and more pictures and details to come...

2) We still have yet to coordinate schedules with the high school pastor about joining that ministry at our church, though we're still pumped about it!

3) Randy started a new job a couple months ago as the I.T. guy and accountant at a small firm here in Salem. He LOVES it!!! He just got an iPhone and is addicted!!!

4) I am finishing my 1st of 3 years of my graduate program in Speech-Language Pathology online and working full-time. I'm currently training for my first half marathon in September at Timberline Lodge near Mt. Hood.

5) The rest of our summer is mainly devoted to weddings and wedding and more weddings. We've gone camping here and there but no more major travel/vacation plans in store until our family Thanksgiving endevour to the coast.