We went out to dinner in town and then came back to where my parent's were staying to play cards for a bit. When it got dark, we decided we should head back to the campsite (also because Uncle Jeff was riding his bike back and when he left, Jamie realized she had forgotten to lock the car when she had gone to the campsite to get something. So, my mom was coming back with us to hang out for a while and so 6 of us piled in Jamie's 5 seater car (my Aunt and Jamie in the front and my mom, Betsy, Justin and I crammed in the back). We drive through the park entrance and try to pull over to the side of the road, having Justin lean out the window, trying to lock the car through the trees before Uncle Jeff gets back. As we pull back out on to the road, we see blue and red lights flashing behind us (great time to get pulled over when you have an illegal number of people in the back seat). Betsy immediately starts spazzing out saying "Oh my gosh! What are we going to do? Danielle, get down." Justin, my mom and I just gave her a look and I told her "that won't help. Maybe I should just push Justin out of the car and he can make a break for it through the woods." I think she honestly thought about it for a second haha...she doesn't do well under pressure. Anyway, the cop comes over to the car and begins flashing a light in at us, looking to see what Justin was doing hanging out the car window, probably. He showed him that all he had were keys and the cop proceeded to say that he pulled us over because the speed limit at the entrance to Zion is 15mph and we were going 25. He also commented on the fact that we were all squished in the back and after a while of him being back in his car, he let us go, giving us a warning. We had a few other infractions so this was pretty awesome. We all drove off cheering at the fact we didn't get any tickets. Of all the places for us to get pulled over...Zion. Pretty great.
After staying up late the night before, playing cards, we woke up and rode bikes down to the swimming hole. On the way over, we were ridding along the path, when all of the sudden Justin comes to a complete halt, causing me, Betsy and Jamie to crash into him and each other. Why he did this. "There was a lizard."
"Okay, but the path is wide enough for you to go around the lizard."
"I didn't know which way he was going to run though."
Wow...i cut my finger because he didn't swerve around the lizard. haha Anyway, swimming in the swimming hole was quite fun. It was a bit chilly, but it was a blast to jump off the rocks into the rapids and you were dry in minutes when you got out. After coming back from the swimming hole, we all got ready to go repelling in the canyon.
hiking up to the top so we could start the repel back down.
Love these guys! I guess that's a good thing, cause I kinda can't get rid of them even if i wanted to.
Betsy going around the rock face.
I'm ready to go! :)
and the repelling begins
Katie was not a big fan of it. But, Jamie was really good to her and once they got going she did fine.
Go Mamma, go!
Uncle Jeff is afraid of heights, so he wasn't a fan of this either...poor guy.
Aunt Julie's a natural
Into the cavern we go!
Looking up out of the canyon. 
At the end we could choose to climb through the walls of the canyon, where they came close together to get out...Justin, Gary and I tried it. It was not as easy as it looks. You have to kind of wedge yourself between the rocks to keep from having your shoes slip. Totally fun though.
Such a great trip! :)
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