Moving on....we made it safe and sound and fell promply to sleep after reaching Moab. The next day Ryan needed to work on his jeep. Just a small repair of welding his steering box back to his frame....:) 8 hours later, the jeep is ready to go! Ha ha! I don't really remember much of Thursday. I just know that we all hung out and had a good time. And I cut mullets. Here is Ryan's:
On Friday we woke up early and went to join the "Official Jeep Safari Group" down at the gas station. To run with the "Jeep Safari" you have to pay a fee, which goes to trail upkeep and stuff like that, and then you can run the official trails. Our group had about 50 jeeps in it and we were running Steel Bender. I think. We started out and things were all good, but they quickly fell apart. The group is on a schedule and so everytime the "Gunner" (the leader jeep) thought that we didn't have time to do an obstacle, he would put someone at the obstacle and make everyone go around. It was so boring!!! We pretty much just drove on flat ground all day. I absolutely hated it. I would never run with the jeep safari officials again! I would rather just donate my fee and then do the trails that I wanted! Anyway....we got to do 1 obstacle because there was no way around it. It was called "The Fall" and it was very true to it's name. You creep your jeep down over this ledge, and then at some point, it is just too much and you just have to let your jeep fall down until it hits the bottom. This isn't too unusual. I can't even count the number of times Ryan has done this with the jeep. The part that is special about this is that on the right side of your jeep, there is nothing but air! Just this little cliff/roll off place with nothing to catch you. It was so stressful to watch the jeeps go down! One guy's jeep fell and when it hit the bottom, he had a bit too much momentum and his jeep kinda bounced up on his right front tire and his back moved toward the edge! It was so scary! I thought he was going over for sure! Here are the pics of Ryan, then Dan, Andy, and Papa Stubbs each on "The Fall."
The next obstacle that we were able to go on was a complete fluke. The Gunner would have liked to make us go around, but Papa Stubbs broke down on the little around trip and so we got some extra time and a few people were able to go up. It was called "The Dragon's Tail" and it was pretty cool. Nothing special though. I didn't even take a picture! We had to stay there for quite awhile so that Papa Stubbs could try and fix his rig. The whole jeep safari group stayed with us and that wasn't really fun. We told them that if they would like to continue on out, that we had enough people and enough help just in our little group that we would be okay. They wouldn't. And then when we finally got Todd's jeep fixed, they still made us go around all the obstacles! Argh! Never again!
The next day my belly was a bit tight and the rest of the girls were staying home with Tawnie (who is just about ready to have a baby, so she couldn't go jeeping!) and just going to have some girl fun time.
We were told that we could drive up to Gemini Bridges and take a look at the arches. Piling into Mindy's new Yukon, we headed up the trail. It was such a bumpy ride! Ryan's jeep was more comfortable on the trail than this Yukon was! Poor Tawnie! All the while, these jeeps are passing us on our way down and giving us the craziest looks! I don't think they could believe that a bunch of women and babies were taking an SUV up to see the arches! Turns out, the trail was NOT as smooth and easy as the boys thought it was, but we were having a super good time on our adventure! We did make it up to arches and Tawnie didn't have her baby out there, so that was good:) We also took these silly "seductive" pictures to give to our husbands for Easter presents. It was pretty fun! And silly:) And I will not be posting a copy, but much to my dismay, Ryan has the photo proudly displayed in our front room, so feel free to come over and see it any time! ha ha!
After getting home that night and telling the guys about our adventure, Dan remembers that he installed airbags on the back tires of the Yukon and they had left them fully inflated so that was why the trip was so rough! It was like we were riding on bricks that didn't let the shocks work! Now we know;) And yes...Tawn had a pretty miserable night and next day. Her belly had took quite the beating and was very worn out.
And the next day was Easter! I got Ryan a little basket with candy and some grilling tools. I think he will be very excited to use them. He got me a "Clapper" that I hooked up to my bedside lamp. It is really hard for me to reach all the way over and turn it off at night (we have a super high bed and the nightstands have to be a long distance away to use the drawers under our bed) so it really has made life easier for me:)
We went to church and all they guys wore their mullets. It was pretty funny!
And then we rested after church and came home. It was a delightful weekend!
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