Family vacation-day 1

This past week, our family took a week long trip to Pecos, New Mexico to a cabin owned by Jeff's uncle. It was so nice to be able to get away from the heat and humidity of Kansas for a while! : ) The highs were in the low 80s the entire trip, sometimes getting down to the low 50s.
So, on Friday, July 30th, we left at 7:30am for Pecos and arrived at about 8:00 that night. The trip was fairly uneventful, except for when we got to Meade Kansas, our treading on our back tire blew! We were able to get to town only to pull up to the tire station and discover that the man had the kind of tire we needed, but there were only 2 and another man had just ordered them! But, the owner of the station graciously said that we could have them so that we could continue our trip and that he would just order another pair for the other man. After about an 1 delay, we finally got underway. We were all very tired a not a little grumpy from sitting so long in a stuffy cramped van. : )
The next day, Saturday, we went on a hike up a mountain. That turned out to be quite the adventure! : )





Tired young hiker.



Krista, what are you doing?

OOOHHHH!!! lol!

We crossed a log bridge and saw up the hill a little ways, a large mound of rocks.
'Surely,' we thought, 'the view from up there must be really good?' So, we climbed up. And it was.
But then, we saw, yet another mound of rocks, even farther up.
'I'll bet the view is even better!' and so, we climbed it! And it was better.
Then, we saw, yet a 3rd pile of rocks! Our minds told us, 'Yah! Surely the view is spectacular!'
Our bodies however, told us, 'I don't care if it's better! I just want to get down and rest!' We listened to our minds. : )
We got to the top and the view WAS wonderful! But, what do you know, we saw a 4th mound of rocks! This time, we listened to our bodies. : )
The moral of this? 'the grass is ALWAYS greener, on the other side.'
When we had first started that morning, the sky promised rain, and so, just to be safe, we took ponchos. Little did we know.....
About 15 minutes from the van, it started. And in New Mexico, it doesn't rain, it pours! And, to make matters worse, we discovered that there wasn't enough ponchos for everybody! So, Kayla and Joey volunteered to go without them. I think they just wanted a chance to walk in the rain! : ) I don't blame them! Well, about 7 minutes from the van, I (Anna) began to feel sorry for Joey, him getting all soaked, and so, I gave him my poncho and we tied it with a belt so it wouldn't be too long for him.: ) Of course, in 2 minutes, I was soaked! And then, just when we thought it couldn't get any worse, it got worse! It began to hail! Small hail, but hail just the same! : ) It only lasted for about 2 minutes however and so then it was just pouring rain again for the rest of the hike. And thus ends the first day of our vacation.