Here is our famous sign shot of course! However, you'll notice the added additions!!! We were so excited Jacob and Mandy joined up with us. For those of you who don't know, we have fellow Auburn alums living also an hour away in Hobbs, NM. It really is amazing that no matter where you go, you can find the Auburn family. Jacob is in the same line of work as Luke, so it's nice they can relate to pretty much everything.
This picture of Luke and Mandy looks like a postcard. It really was beautiful!
Such happy hikers at this point!
We were happy hikers the whole time actually, but we do have a good story as it turns out.
This house below is a stop along the trail we were following, however, with a poor map in hand we headed out to continue following the trail, and just couldn't find the path or any markers to help guide us in the right direction. Four college educated folks mind you. So...we headed off following a riverbed in search of our mystery trail. This went on for an hour or two with us following the riverbed, and certain to see a sign sometime soon. After attacks by large cactus plants, and no sign in sight, we finally decided daylight was fading too fast and headed back towards our truck. On the way back out we re glanced at an earlier sign to find that all four of us completely missed the arrow pointing us onto the trail we searched hours for. Oh Well!! We had a blast and made our own trail. We've all decided we'll return and conquer these mountains.
The fog was coming in quickly and daylight fading fast on our way out. The temperature really does start to drop very fast out here.
It was a great weekend! On another quick note--today I start my first day of substitute teaching. I'm only doing a half day of 5th graders today, but tomorrow I have a full day of 1st graders, and then a whole day of 2nd graders on Thursday. Should be a lot of fun! I am really looking forward to 1st grade. 
I cannot wait to hear how your first day of being a substitute went!
ReplyDeleteHey, I know Mandy! So weird!
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