Memorial Day

Memorial Day weekend gave us a chance to get out of town. We spent the weekend in Venice (that's Utah with cows, not Italy with gondolas), at Bev's grandparents, and Capital Reef National Park.

We had a great time in Capital Reef even though a severe rainstorm closed down some of the park. The rain let up just long enough for us to get in some hiking and it even created some new waterfalls for us to see. We started with Hickman's Bridge which is a short hike to a natural bridge, we stopped along the way to enjoy some of the other geological wonders.

This is not Hickman's Bridge

This is also not Hickman's Bridge

This isn't even a bridge

This is in fact Hickman's Bridge, we finally made it.

This is everyone that went: Bev's sister Natalie and her husband Bretton, Uncle Doug and Aunt Carolyn, us, soon-to-be brother-in-law Gary, sister Megan, and brother Ben.

Fat Man's (Pregnant Woman's) Misery

We decided not to take the same way back, because we'd already seen it and wanted to try something new. Instead we opted for a slot canyon called Fat Man's Misery, for obvious reasons. Bev was a trooper and didn't complain at all as she was forced to squeeze through narrow passages and climb boulders.

In a couple more weeks Bev and baby wouldn't have fit.

You can see just how steep and narrow the canyon was.

We finished off our trip to Captial Reef with a visit to the muddy Fremont River waterfall.

It was the perfect weekend getaway and was fun to spend the weekend with Bev's siblings, aunt and uncle, and grandma.