So today was a blast!!
Two of Kallie's friends came up, and on our day off the four of us plus Alli went on a couple of hikes!! The first one we went on was pretty short and there wasnt much to see, but after that we went up to Natural Bridge and that was pretty sweet!! We hiked (aka slid) down the side of the mountain so we could get a better look at the falls... it was pretty much straight down. i fell into a "nettle" which is some bush that stings you a lot!! I now have little bumps all over my right hand and on the inside of my left arm that hurt!! anyways, we got down there and i took lots of pictures, as usual. we climbed all over the valley down there and it was so beautiful! as i was crossing the river at one point, i jumped from a tree that extended about half way across the river to a boulder that was right in front of me, but down some and hit my knee really really REALLY hard against the face. yeah. it hurt. my knee is now swollen and very bruised. but thats okay! we were having fun!! at one point kallie, alli and i went off on our own and left the guys sitting in a cave. we crossed the river and climbed up on a cliff and sat there just looking for a few minutes. when we decided to get up to leave, kallie and alli went down the way we came up, but i saw some rocks that i wanted to cross the river on. i only had to get down the side of the cliff i was standing on to get there! i had to get from one level of my cliff to the next, and the difference was about twice my height. i was gonna climb down onto the next level and avoid the really big crack in the rock walls that i could fall into if i stepped wrong (the crack was just big enough for me to fall down into... scary!). as i was climbing down i realized that every handhold i grabbed for was falling off! there was nothing stable to grab! (im a genius, cant you tell??) so here i am stranded on the side of a cliff too afraid to just jump down for fear that i will fall into this crack. what to do? call for help!! i yelled for kallie to come help me up, but she thought that i was just going to show her something, so she took her time. meanwhile i'm hanging on the side of a cliff by one handhold and a small foothold. yeah, doesnt sound too terrifying to you eagle scouts, im sure, but for the inexperiened climber that i am it was horrible! obviously, kallie came to my rescue and i lived to tell the tale.
you remember that hike/slide down the mountain to get into the valley at the beginning? yeah... that was TONS of fun to come back up!! i pretty much did iton all fours.

all in all we had a blast!! very eventful, but that just added to the day.
wish you could have been there... really, i do.

LOVE YOU A TON!!
*morgan

(32 days, dave...)