Lambs Knoll Canyon

Today's adventure started with a pre-dawn wake up. Even with the various time changes (we've been bopping between time zones and there was that whole daylight savings time thing) which should work in our favor, it felt SO early. But AJ was more or less a trooper, and somehow we made it to rendezvous with our guide, Whitney, at 7:30. Yes, AM. UGH.

None of us had been canyoneering before, and really only Wes had been rapelling some, but with even the smallest of outdoor climbing backgrounds (that would be me, everyone else has more and is better!) we picked it all up pretty quickly. We ended up tackling 5 rappels of between 20ish and maybe 80 something feet in length? A few were just kinda fun and to change levels/locations within the canyon, but the others actually put us into a slot camyon we then had to climb back out of in anotehr direction. That was probably the coolest, since it was a space we really couldn't have accessed easily otherwise, and dropping in from above was an awesome perspective shift. Whit was great and had lots of good stories to share, and taught us some new little tricks. Her one extremely corny raft guide phrase she still keeps in her back pocket was about "using the facili-trees" and I jave voweed to keep that one going this summer at camp. We wrapped up our adevnturing around 11-something which was good because some rainy weather was incoming and we had specifically gone out earlier in the day to try and avoid the bad weather.

By now we were in need of some lunch and COFFEE so we headed to River Rock Roasting Company (say that 3 times fast) which has both! And also a nice view of the Virgin River off the patio. If you're ever in La Verkin, definitely stop by. The afternoon was pretty chill, with AJ needing a NAP after the early AM. I took advantage of the down time to get a little work done, too, and spend some quality time with my book. We kinda meant to go out on a wee small afternoon hike, but couldn't quite get it together so just Wes and I (AJ was still sleeping?!) took a walk in the neighborhood that adjoins our tiny house village.

We grabbed dinner in the next state/time zone with a return to Colorado City, AZ and a visit to Edge of the World Brewery. Wes and I shared a nice flight of local brews, and we all enjoyed some very tasty sandwiches and salads. Of particular note, they had fries that were kinda like steak fries in format, but very thin, almost like thick cut potato chips. I had never had that particular aspect ratio of fries and it was surprsingly delicious. Crunchy, but still a bit potato-y inside too. I'm pretty sure we got some seni-ridiculous desert - like some big fresh-baked cookie and ice cream situation - but I can't say exactly what... well, actually i think I just did. We were too tired to really do much else, but did watch an episode of Elementary to close out the evening.