Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Sunday morning I went into the Locust Lane Chapel to experience Conference. When I arrived only the two missionaries for the Moab area were there. Just before meeting started a young couple with three small children came in. That was all of us there. Visited a bit after with the family. They are from around Jackson Hole, Wyoming. They had spent five days rafting on the San Juan River. I would guess the children were from 14 months to 4 years. It was cold on land and I can't imagine what the river was like. She said it was cold, so when they got off the river they rented a motel for a night so they could have showers and warm up. Other than that they are tenting. I was the only one in the entire building all during the afternoon session.

Sunday Gordon accompanied Doug in his jeep, and Steve in his, and they did part of the "Steel Bender" trail. That is the first ride Gordon has been on at Moab.

Monday we spent the day cooking an Easter dinner for Doug & Phyllis and Steve. His wife is in Montana. It was a good dinner, and it was too cold to do anything other than go for a 1/2 mile walk to the falls. Saw these flowers on our way back. It was cold and windy. We are sooooo tired of the wind. We are unloading the quads tomorrow and are going for a ride unless it is pouring rain.

Tuesday morning we unloaded the quads, Steve in his jeep and Doug and Phyllis in theirs and we headed to the other end of "Steel Bender". We didn't get very far before I knew that I was in big trouble. My wrist was killing me. Didn't get much further when Gord rolled his machine on top of himself. He has some very sore ribs and a very sore right arm and a very broken machine. So much for Moab. It is too tough for us. We limped back to camp, the others followed us. I invited everyone to share the remainder of Monday's dessert which they jumped at. We visited until around 1:30 pm then everyone left. Around 3:00 we drove into town for straps, the straps broke on the box on the back of Gord's quad. Thank goodness for that box. . . that is twice it has saved his bacon. We loaded the machines and packed up all we could, then Doug and Phyllis suggested they take us to town for supper, but I think Gord was too sore for another trip over rough roads, and we had leftovers so they joined us.

We left campsite this morning around 9:00. Had breakfast with D & P at the Moab Diner, stayed long enough to get two parking tickets, $50.00, then we headed north and they went to get a spot in the campground where Steve is. We headed up 191 to I70 then to I15. What a beautiful drive. Had a bit of tail wind which was nice and tonight finds us sitting in the parking lot of Walmart in Payson, Utah. As neither one of us had much sleep last night is will be an early to bed night for us.