Thirtieth Anniversary!

Today Deb and I celebrated our 30th anniversary.  We went back to our original honeymoon night place.  Zion National Park.  I had plans to rock climb and then do a canyon together in addition to dining at one of our favorite restaurants, Oscars.  The weather changed our plans a little.  An unusually steady wet weather system left over from a tropical storm down in the Baja of Mexico pounded the region with lots of rain and flash floods in the canyons.  We witnessed a flash flood in Pine Creek canyon as we looked on under the bridge by the tunnel where we usually start our rappels in that slot.

 We did get in some rock climbing and our dinner at Oscars. Then today we hiked to the top of Lady Mountain.  The "trail" up that mountain is only known to a few people as it was dismantled more than 50 years ago by the park service.  It used to have lots of iron chains.  Now we rope up for a few precarious sections, but we are still able to follow the many cut steps in the stone up that steep trail.  The view on top is spectacular.  It took us 6 hours to complete the hike.  Obviously we had the route to ourselves.  This evening we had our children and grandchildren over for some cake.  Deb and I are so blessed with such a great family.  We hope the next 30 years are just a great!