Haystacks and The Amazon Trail

After quite a few phone calls and... well I'm not sure if I would classify it as a lot of planning or hardly any... I ended up having over Caleb, Bobby, and Rachel for lunch on Sabbath. The haystacks were quite good despite the frozen slimey lettuce. Afterward as you can see we sat around for awhile and amused ourselves with comparing cell phones etc. We couldn't force ourselves to get up and go out in the heat. When Ryan showed up after his RA thingy he and Jaclyn tried a few gymspastics.

Finally around 5:00 we decided to head out to Soddy Daisy. We'd heard something about water and swimming so it couldn't be that bad right? I'm sorry I don't have any pictures but due to the rain it wouldn't have been a good thing to bring electronics.

It was quite fun really. True to tradition I fell and now have a goose egg on my knee that's rather bothersome, but once we finally got there it was great. There's 15-25 foot jumps and a few rope swings. We even got to swim in an all out down poor. On the way back the path was flooded by probably a good 4 or 5 inches which made the adventure all the more like tramping through the Amazon. That goodness we didn't add the snakes. That would have been too real.