So a group of my old friends have been planning a campout for this week for a few months now.  I got the time off before my current manager was there, so I've had to remind them about it happening.  We're going to Moon Lake from Friday to Sunday, and it should be pretty sweet.

We set up a tent at Sequence last weekend, so that's a little bit like camping, but not really.  Too bad it got shut down and we were only there for less than 3 hours.  We spent more time driving to the big outdoor party than we spent there.  Everyone I was with found the substances they were looking for though.  It was a very crazy night!

My family reminded me at the last minute about a family campout with many cousins and their families and kids, so I took some last second time off to go up to Logan Canyon on the 4th of July.  I asked my cousin Brian about hiking, and he said there was a trail to these wind caves across the street.  So after getting people together the next day I went hiking with 14 people, 10 of us made it to the caves.  My cousin Brian and 2 of his nieces and 1 nephew took up the lead.  I hung back with my brother Ben, his wife Paloma, her sister Marisol, my sister Miriam, her husband Chris, and my 6 yr old nieces Audrey and Hailey, 4 yr old Kate and 2 yr old Max.  2 yr old Ruth stayed at camp with my cousin Sarah.  The 2 youngest kids had to be carried on shoulder most of the time.  We got most of the way there and Miriam and Chris wanted to turn around, but their twin girls wanted to make it to the caves, so they stuck with the rest of us to make it to the caves.  When we got there we didn't even know we were there at first, and we were standing right on top of it.  Walked a little further and found a few paths that went down into it, it was pretty cool.  It was the kids first real hike, just under 2 miles each way.  The pace was so slow on the way up though that I decided to run down by myself since Brian's group had left right after we got there, which was good exercise and a lot of fun.  :)

This week has been quite insane at my work.  The assistant manager went on vacation, so I've been the keyholder in his place, and it's been quite hectic having to take care of extra things.  Looking back at this week, for some crazy reason nobody has bought a computer from me, even though I've pitched a bunch of them and my co-workers have closed deals.  In my business a chunk of my pay is based on how much I sell, so I'm kind-of in the toilet right now.  I've had 3 systems stuck on my bench since Wednesday, because they've had hard drive issues and cd-rom issues, so it's made fixing them a painstakingly long process trying to get the data moved around stuff while dealing with even more distractions than ever.  For the longest time I've had Thursday off, but decided I wanted a change of pace, so starting this week I'll have Sunday-Monday off.  Hopefully more relaxation will help me be more on my toes during my work week.  But I'm planning on going in tomorrow for a couple hours to put the final touches on those 3 problem child computers so I can have a fresh start on Tuesday.

In hiking news...  I went out and picked up Levi since Fry was working late last night, we picked up Wally and headed toward the mountain.  We were going to try for Willow Heights, but since it was almost 9 and the sun was starting to set, I made a quick destination change again and we went to Bell Canyon.  We got up to the little reservoir there and it was crazy full, the fullest I've ever seen.  We hiked up the side and onto a trail I had only been on from the other direction that looped around the reservoir.  I was like "we can just loop all the way around"  Silly me for forgetting the rushing water, we got pretty much all the way around and there's a place where you normally walk over these rocks where the water is trickling into this stream, well those rocks ended up being all under water where it was a rushing river instead.  Someone had stuck a little log across to cross it, but half of it was under water, we were so close to making the loop but decided we didn't want to risk falling in and getting wet, or just wading across, so we went back around the way we came.  When our side trail emerged from the darkness onto the main trail, there happened to be a couple girls going up the main trail right there.  We were a bit surprised and I was like "Boo!" we had a quick laugh, chatted for a second and continued on our ways.  Good times.  :)

Wally just called and wants to go on a hike in an hour or so here.  He wants to do Grandeur again, but who knows if we'll change our minds at the last second.  So far he's the only one that has expressed interest, I wonder if we'll find some other peeps to join us.

On Sunday, Andy unglued himself from his WOW to go hiking with Sam and I amazingly.  We didn't have time for a long hike so we were going to head up to Donut Falls.  On the way up I realized that every popular spot had a ton of cars there already, so I suggested we go up a little further to a less known spot called Willow Heights which has a little lake with a beaver dam in it.  We headed up the trail for a bit and then had to hike around the snow covering the trail.  We got about halfway there where it flattens out and the ground was covered completely in snow, so bad we totally lost the trail.  So we ended up hiking around the snowy hills for a while and then skiing down on our shoes, which was pretty fun.  We never found the lake, but found a pretty cool view.

Sam said he wanted to go buy Rockband so we could play it, and said he'd probably end up leaving it here when he leaves next week.  So we've been rocking out till the wee hours of the morning most of the week.  I like the drums or vocals better than guitar, though we take turns switching instruments.  I'm proud that I've been able to hit 100% on hard vocals on some songs.  :)  Who wants to come rock with me?  ;)

We talked about going camping this weekend, actually Sam and Andy's family was going and I was going to tag along.  So I got Saturday, Sunday, Monday off since I knew we were going to have 1 or 2 guys on vacation everyday the next couple weeks and I was going to have to be working some crazy hours, I deserve a break, right?  Well it turns out Sam's family decided to go Friday-Saturday and come back Saturday, which is silly because usually when I camp I try to be up there a couple days.  Since Andy had to work too, we were going to head up and meet them after we got off Friday.  But then midday Friday I talk to Sam and he says that Andy didn't work so he was with him and they were going then and couldn't wait for me.  They gave me directions to where they were staying at Payson Lake, but I've never been there and didn't want to drive far into the unknown alone in the dark, so I nixed the idea and went and played Mario Party at Rhett's instead.

So now I have all this time off and nothing fun to do.  Maybe I'll clean a bit.  Anyone want to entertain me today?  So far I've been a lazy bum laying in bed playing on my laptop.  Must get up now.

COME PLAY POKER TOMORROW PEOPLE!  It's Sam's last week here before he ships out again, so I hope more people will come over to play or hang out.  I want to try and get to the top of Grandeur tomorrow with whoever wants to join us, probably go around 1-2.  Then we'll play poker around 8ish in case there's any family stuff going on.  Let me know if you're interested!