A Walk Back In Time

Since Maui was out of the question (HaHa) Gary and I

 had to settle for a week-end in St. George to celebrate

 our 34th Anniversary

Saturday was beautiful with temps in the 70's and so

we decided to hike to some Anasazi petroglyphs

that we had heard about

This is looking down on the Santa Clara River

After hiking for over an hour we finally came upon

these but seriously there were no more petroglyphs to be 

found and we're like we've hiked all this way for this?!

Disappointed we headed back down the trail.

After awhile we came upon some people gathered around

a group of rocks.  Come to find out we had hiked right

past not knowing that you have to hike down off the trail

among some boulders in order to find the petroglyphs

(Perhaps the BLM could mark that more clearly?  Just saying)

Anyway, as you can see we were happy to have finally 

found them and they were pretty amazing

 

Keep in mind that the "old goats" are to the

right of the picture . . .

We decided the Anasazi must have had a 

great sense of humor!!

Even though our hike ended up being 3 hours

long we really did enjoy our "Walk back in time"!

Mt View Golf

After being "sidelined" from the Mt View football team

Derek decided to give the golf team a try  

They recently had their last tournament at

Wasatch Mt Golf Course in Midway

It was a great day for golf and the fall 

leaves were amazing

Derek played well and hit some great shots

A big thanks to Coach LeChem who is

in his second year of coaching the Bruins,

but has really coached Derek since the age of 2!!

Life Elevated

On the last "official" Saturday of the summer 

we decided to go on an adventure,

So off we went up Little Cottonwood Canyon

to Snowbird for a ride on the Tram

All loaded up and ready for take-off!

(I think Derek's shirt will be looking for a nest . . . haha)

Looking up . . .

. . . And then looking down at Snowbird.

At an elevation of 11,000 feet we could see

for miles and miles

This is looking down into the Salt Lake Valley

Looking North with Mt Timpanogos in the background

We hiked down and around some of 

the ski areas

 This is a tunnel that skiers use in the

winter to get from one side of the 

mountain to the other

They just step on this conveyor belt

and off they go . . . who knew?!

Hiking down was great, hiking back up the

mountain to catch the Tram to go back 

not so great but we did it!

Life really is "elevated" in this great State!!

LA Week-end

Before heading to Santa Barbara for the reunion

we spent the week-end in LA

Saturday night the Angels were playing the Oakland A's 

It was a fun game even though the A's lost!

Sunday we went and walked around the grounds of the

Newport Beach temple which is beautiful.

We then went to the LA temple and were

surprised at how big it is.

At the other end of the spectrum, the boys wanted

to experience the Hollywood "Walk of Fame"

This was one of their favorite stars

Sunday evening we headed to 911 Venice Boulevard

to the place that Grandpa Chem grew up---

the mortuary that his father owned

Monday morning we went shopping in Santee Alley

which is located in the LA Fashion District, 

1 word for this place . . . interesting.

Enjoyed ourselves an "alley dog" which is a hot dog

wrapped in bacon with the works---deliciousness!

One week-end in LA and look at what happens . . .

enough said!!

LeChem Family Beach Reunion

We just enjoyed an awesome family reunion in

beautiful Santa Barbara, California

We had fun at the beach making sand castles . . .

playing in the water . . .

 surfing . . .

and had ALOT of fun

boogie boarding.

The boys rented a paddle board and a surf board

and soon found out it's not as easy as it looks!

The best part--- wrapping up in a warm towel!

One afternoon we went to Shoreline park for a picnic,

to fly kites,

and play ball.

The guys enjoyed their golf outing 

and we enjoyed our shopping!

Our last night we ate at this quant little place

and the food was yummy!

LOVED our Beach Reunion :)

and a huge thanks to Jeff & Julie for

putting up with all of us!!