Area Convention

Every year in June S&I (Seminaries and Institutes - it's the new name for CES) has an area convention. All the seminary and institute teachers/spouses in the Utah East Area meet for a 2 day conference. We have training and listen to amazing speakers. We also get to meet up with good friends (and no kids). It's always a great time.

This year the convention was in Torrey Utah right by Capitol Reef. Paul and I took the opportunity go on a few hikes while we were there. We drove out to Goblin Valley and hiked wild horse loop through the slot canyons.

There were some places in the canyon that the with of the trail was only as wide as my shoe!

The Sunset was beautiful, but came too soon.

By the time we got to the goblins it was too dark to see much.

Goblin Valley is definetly more impressive at night with all the shadows. There was even a scout troop there playing hide and seek or steal the flag or some other night game running in and out of the formations. Now THAT would be fun!!

The next morning we woke up bright and early and drove down to Boulder (the most scenic city in Utah) and hiked the Lower Calf Creek Falls trail in the Grand Escalante Staircase.

The falls were over 150 feet tall!

It was a 3 mile hike to the falls and IT WAS HOT!!

So Paul decided to cool off by going for a swim. I chickened out. The cove was cool enough for me, I didn't need to swim in 30 degree water to cool off more.

We had a blast!