Mission San Juan Capistrano

We are in California for Marshall and Kelsie's wedding. After a wonderful rehearsal dinner last night at Hapa J's we had the day free to do some sightseeing. It has been years since we went to the Mission in San Juan Capistrano. This mission was founded in 1776...amazing that something in California is that old. It was pretty much distroyed by an earthquake but they have done a great job preserving what is left.

Happy 4th of July

Scott has spent the last 3 out of 4 weeks in Israel for work, so Karin and the girls spent the 4th with us. Audrey is really doing well with her swim lessons and is showing Graddaddy how she can swim.

This is Audrey squirting her mom.

Baby Sophie is really getting big and loves to smile.Grandaddy is enjoying his "girls"

Duck Creek

Our second to last night was spent at Duck Creek. We had spent a week 7 years ago here with a large group of friends and really like the area.

Andy has had a great time on this trip taking pictures of a large variety of wildflowers. It seems that where ever we went the wildflowers were really in bloom. We moved on from Duck Creek to Pine Grove near Lake Mary (south of Flagstaff) for our last night. It has really been a great trip.

Highway 150 Utah

On Saturday morning the Varings and the Barkers left Park City for home and we picked up Reilly and headed back up Highway 150 to camp for a couple of nights at Lost Lake Campground. Most of the snow that we encountered the week before had melted but many of the campgrounds were still not opened including Lost Lake. We camped in a space outside of the gate and were right on the lake. We were able to kayak and hike some of the beautiful trails.

Reilly was glad to be out of the kennel and back in the trailer so she could hike and kayak. They loved her at the kennel and were sorry to see her go.

Biking & Zip lines

We finished up our week together in Park City with a great bike ride and a run down the extreme zip line (over 50 miles an hour in about 45 seconds) and the alpine slide at the Olympic Park. We have had a wonderful time together and Andy and I will be heading on home with a few more nights of camping and hiking.

Wasatch Moutain Travels

This morning we took Tom up to Smith Morehouse Lake to fish while we went kayaking with Reilly again.

At lunch we met up with the rest of the group and traveled up Highway 150 for some sightseeing. This is Provo Falls. All of the streams and lakes are full and running high.

Mountain ATV'ing

Today we took a 30 mile ATV trip through the mountains and valleys behind Deer Creek Lake.

This is the nice clean crew....

We got up to the top for some great views and then went down the other side of the mountain for some beautiful rides through the meadows and across streams. Needless to say a shower was needed by all.