Big Rock Candy Mountain

What a fun weekend! The Smith and Tatton families get together every year for a fun trip and I was lucky enough to be invited this year as the honorary miscellaneous Rix.

After a beautiful drive thru one of my favorite areas in Utah (Circleville) and a smallish detour when I followed the directions on the website for BRCM to their other resort (oops) I got to the right resort in time to go on the river rafting excursion. We met up with our guides, Buckshot and Smoky, and I thought it was a good thing Tony was an experienced river runner because these two characters were anything but sober. I could smell the booze coming off Buckshot as we piled in to our boats and as ridiculous as this sounds, I just thought it would make the experience all the better!

We survived and it was a lot of fun too. Our inebriated guide only made it more exciting because in particularly hairy spots he'd let off a string of cusses that had me thinking we were for sure goners but he'd recover and things would go on as smoothly as ever. We were completely soaked since it was a constant water fight between the two boats the two hours it took us to get down the river. We didn't stand a chance against the boys, especially since Michele and I were in charge of the water guns for our boat and we were wedged in the middle not really able to use our arms at all.



When we got back to the cabin after the river run Coree was headed out on the ATV so I jumped on back for a quick little ride. We wandered around the river area then crossed the highway to check out a trail and 6 miles up the mountain we decided we'd had enough and the sun was going down so we came back to find out Tony was out looking for us and we'd completely missed dinner.

Sunday morning after breakfast we loaded up and headed towards Hurricane by way of Cedar Breaks. It was a beautiful detour. We stopped at the official lookout but didn't want to pay the price for the view so here is a pic of Michele and a couple of her boys in the parking lot.

I now have a house full of Smithees for the rest of the week and I'm loving the company. I've been having fun cooking and hanging with the fam. I should get used to the ways of a big family, I'll be moving in with this crazy bunch in the near future! It will be a major culture shock since I'm pretty keen on my loner ways!!