Ben's Birthday (July 6) Part I - Loch Raven Reservoir

Hello Everyone!  This time I have a really good excuse for not updating so much sooner!  I was without the computer for three weeks!!! Brent was still out East working and I flew back to Utah to get ready for this semester.  Then when Brent got back with the laptop, we were already in school!!! Jack just woke me up at 7:00 am to go to the bathroom and we don't have to be up for at least another two hours!  I figured I would use this time to add to my blog.  There is stuff from before the sixth that I want to add but I figure I should stay with the progression I have already started!  One day I will get back to the other stuff!

So I know Ben will kill me if he sees this, but oh well Ben! Ben's birthday is actually on July 5th, but we were under strict orders not to celebrate it on his birthday.....Ben forgot that he never said anything about not celebrating it on the day after his birthday!  He already had sworn several of us to secrecy on even the date of his birthday....it wasn't me that told!  

After church, several of us went to Loch Raven Reservoir.  It looked like it was going to rain, but we decided to venture out anyways.  Brent and I still were watching Rico, so we decided to take both Rico and Jack with us.  They love to be outside!  We were thinking that we would pull up to the lake and be right there.  We were picturing an open area with picnic tables and the such.  However, this is not the part of the Reservoir that we were going to.  We hiked in, and it was beautiful, and we kept hiking.  We were about halfway where we thought we needed to be when it started down pouring!  The rain was so cold!  We decided to continue on.  We stood under the trees for awhile waiting for the rain to slow down.  Than we turn around to start climbing the mountain behind us.  (They wanted to go cliff diving).  We started following, but it was really muddy and it was rather difficult with the two dogs.  We decided that we needed to turn around and go back.  It was nice having a walk with just Brent and I and the two dogs!  

This picture is of us when we first got on the bridge and started to cross it.  Jack was having so much fun!

Look how huge this place is!  The other side is just as big only it is more open.

Jack and Angela on the bridge! 

It got so dark right before it started to pour! This is from the other side of the bridge.  You can see it goes way back.  

This is some of the guys that came with us.  They are all techs that we worked with this summer.  (Left to Right) Matt S., Dusty, Ben, Joe, and Brady.