Zion's: Canyoneering/Reppeling

    Geez! I have seriously slacked on keeping up with my daily life...more like the adventures I've been blessed with these last few weeks! Well summer started off with a good kick...literally. It's amazing how time flies without me realizing it until I look back on the last few events of my life. Where do I even start?!? 

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         Zion's last weekend is probably the best place to start. Here's how it went... 

     We went to Zion's to reppel into the canyon. You should know, many dangerous events occurred during that time. Fractured ankle, swollen eye with a bigg massive goose egg, hair getting caught in reppel device, swimming in who- knows-how-deep-50degrees water, passing out, crying children,hiking/canyoneering/repelling/swimming for 18 hrs(!!!)(almost a whole FReAKIN day!!), search and rescuing and this all happened in one short, fun, unforgettable fam bam bonding time! :) 

    • Swollen eye, good bump, fractured ankle, search and rescue victim was: my aunt and uncles friends wife. ( ??? Confusing...she's a family friend) 

   • Hair loss Victim: me!! Happend on the first reppel. AND it was painful!! Good thing I have plenty of locks to cover the bald spots. 

   • Crying children: my lovely cousins. I was comforting them. At this point we had a few more reppels. We didn't have anything to hook our rope into so my uncle had to reppel each of us down with the rope around him. And this was the unknown-deep-50-degree water too. AND there was a waterfall hitting us while we were reppeling down. Plus we had an injured women. Not to mention our shoes were freakin heavy and my little cousin( he's not little, he's over 6ft) had to help ALL (8) of us swim across  with two logs to support us. Try to imagine how cold it was and how hard it was for him and us...you cant! Shows how tuff my little hero of a cousin is!!!

     Anyway... search and rescue didn't find us until we were in the Narrows and it was pitch black! At this point it was around 10:30ish. Good job to Nathan for being prepard and randomly packing a flash light!! That saved us BIG time! S&R did their stuff and bandaged up Penny (injured women) and helped us out of the last mouth of the journey. 

   So that was the trip! We had started at 7am and didn't get back until 1 in the morning. The sight of a pillow was beautiful to my tired eyes/body! 

      Ahhhh family's are great! I love these kinds of trips! Just the right amount of suspense to get the heart and blood racing. Perfect amount of adrenaline rush too!! Ahhhh I love it!!