Cabin Weekend

Contra Loma

Took these over Thanksgiving break, and realized I should have posted them earlier! This is a reservoir in good ol' Antioch that my parents like to call "the lake". The color is drained once the photos are on blogger, so just imagine them as a lot more colorful and pretty.

Oceanside

I bought a waterproof disposable camera one night while in Oceanside in order to take pictures while boogie boarding... but unfortunately (but also fortunately) the only other time we went boogie boarding was at midnight. So here are the few that I got when the current was too strong to go in the water.

Bryce Canyon

A few weeks ago I went on a spontaneous road trip down to Bryce Canyon with some good friends. It was a nice change of pace from being in Provo, and we had a ton of fun, and of course I took a ton of pictures.

MOAB. Day 3. Part 2.

After our lovely morning of shooting the sunset, me, Sean, and Lexi decided to have our own little photoshoot.





We got a flat tire. And then it started snowing.

Our faithful professor fixing the flat tire.

After we fixed our flat tire we got back to camp to find this snowstorm. It was insane! We had to quickly pack up so we could get out of there before it REALLY got bad. There was even THUNDER! Some of the girls were being wimps and I swear they almost cried. But the boys and I (and Lexi) made the best of it and had our fun.


Our trailer broke off of the truck after the girl driving it decided to pump the gas going over a huge pothole... yeah.

I just discovered this one looking through all my pictures and I don't know why it didn't catch my eye the first time! This is from day 2 when we were walking back from Double Arch.

And that's all from Moab!

MOAB. Day 2. Part 3. [Last one]

For the next part of our loooong second day, we went to a different part of Zion's National Park and did the hike inside the "Fiery Furnace" with a tour guide. Supposedly it was a really "intense" hike... pssh. Intense, shmintense.

This is what it looked like pretty much the whole tour.

Here is our lovely tour guide, Sierra, explaining how the arches and stuff in Zion's were created. It was pretty interesting... but I don't think I could explain it as well as this Geology Major.

All of the adventurous people climbed through this little arch right here. I was one of them.

This tree reminded me of something that would be in Jerusalem.

Stopping for another little nature lesson from our guide.

Can you guess what this arch is called? ....... Yep, it's called "Skull Arch".


Mouse tracks! Or some sort of small animal...

This looks like a dangerous leap, but it really wasn't. Sean is just really tall. Okay, so I couldn't do it, but that's because I don't have long legs. At least I didn't kill myself trying!

Surprise! This arch is called "Surprise Arch". Because the owner guy (or whoever he was) of the park was hiking through here one day mapping out the trail for the tour we went on, and he couldn't see this arch because of his ranger hat until he was leaving and turned around to see it.

Before we left Zion's for the night, we took a vote and decided to shoot "Balance Rock" before the sunset and before we ate dinner. While we waited for the sun to go down some more, Peter and our other mentors gave us a little lesson on different types of lenses. The coolest lens was a Nikon. Take THAT Sean!!

After our little lesson, we headed up a little hill to take pictures. It was freeeeeezing and I was tired of standing, so I took a few pictures that luckily turned out good. But the sunset wasn't even that cool, so I just left the group and went to sit and wait in the truck. No, I was not being a poor sport. Just a cold sport.



We ended the day with a hearty all-you-can-eat pizza and salad and soup bar at Zax restaurant in downtown Moab. I wouldn't recommend it. I was dying of starvation and wanted something warm so I chose that since it was the best deal (only $12!) and it didn't taste as wonderful as I was hoping.

Up next, Day 3! This might take 2 posts, but we'll see.