Slip n' Slide!

A couple of weeks ago, we had a fantastic ward activity slip n' sliding at Rock Canyon Park. I did it last year too but I didn't have a blog to talk about it in. Anyway, it was great, we went down in groups, in trains, on our feet, our bums, our tummies and any other creative way to do it. For those of you who don't know how it's done, you take a long piece of sturdy plastic and place it down the hill. You take the hose that comes from somewhere (this part is unknown to me of who supplies the water/hose), then someone stands at the top and hoses the plastic while you fly down and hope you don't slide into the gravel and rocks at the bottom of the hill. It's great fun. Dish detergent is often used as well to make you go faster. Here is a picture of me and my neighbor attempting to go down crouching on our feet. We couldn't hold the position the whole way down. The plastic looks dry but we were going pretty fast... we soaped up our feet too. We had a video of us going down on our stomachs too but my neighbor somehow misplaced it, which is really sad. If she ever finds it, I'll post it!

This is how we looked after a few runs. It's dirty and you could end up with wads of grass in your clothes and in your mouth but it's worth it because it's a whole lot of fun!

This is my roommate Kendra, my neighbor Andrea, and me.

This is one of the trains we did... you can't see me but I'm in there in the middle... see the girl in the green, that's Andrea. Kendra is behind her and I'm right behind Kendra. You can sorta see the black strap on my shoulder and that's about it... you could probably see my leg too if you looked really hard. Needless to say, we all crashed into each other at the bottom of the hill... but we managed to keep the train together up until then!

The Official Blog Dedication

This blog is dedicated to my family who has been on my back for many moons trying to get me to start a blog. I am the last to follow suit... even last behind James who has had a blog since life in the womb. I don't know if that's ridiculous on my side or his... In any case, here me are! Ready to tell you all the exciting news of my life. As a fair warning, I'm just gonna say that in a few weeks I think you might realize why I never had a blog to begin with... there's just not that much worth noting at this time. But who knows, life can take you for a ride when you least expect it... so wish me the best!