The Rock Garden

On Wednesday Linny, Jax, and I spent two hours in the Rock Garden.

Tuesday Hiking with Linny & Jax

Two things over the weekend. When we checked in the hotel before going to the hockey game I wandered around the room for a minute or two trying to find where the cooler was that I could get water out of. Linny explained that you can drink sink water in the city. You can at the lodge but it's pretty salty.

When we were walking over to Applebee's to eat we were walking through the parking lot and I saw a big surprise pop up on Linny's face. She said "Wait, Ford makes cars too? I thought they only made trucks." In fairness she's probably never seen a Ford car at the lodge.

My Best Friend

Linny will be turning 15 in May. I can't believe it. While I was in Salt Lake both Linny and her mom mentioned she will be having her quinceanera party celebrating the Latin tradition of a woman going from childhood to adulthood. Apparently it's pretty expensive. In the $10,000 plus range I've been told. They were interested in how much I wanted to chip in. I said to Linny

Me: "White girls don't have that party."
Linny: "They have a sweet sixteen party."
Me: " Right. How much is that? Five girls come sleep over and they have a pillow fight."
Linny: "Did you see that on TV?"
Me: "Yes."

Apparently I have a distorted view of how that works. So, in the end, I told Linny I wasn't chipping in. However, I need help at the lodge. She can come work at the lodge and continue her educational experience with an online school which she was doing in Salt Lake anyway and saving me the four hours of driving her to school and back and me back here and back, twice a day. Any money she makes goes towards her 15th party and I might match it, but she has to earn it.

On Sunday Linny moved back into the lodge.

By Monday she was out working on the property. I showed her some places where the last rain had washed away the road and to get a shovel and fill them in. Linny took off in the truck and Jax and I went hiking. It didn't all go as planned but to her credit Linny also got herself out of trouble with no help from me.

By sundown Linny was making pretty good progress filling in the holes and her work ethic was back to normal just like she'd never left here.

The Day of Saturday

On Saturday Linny and I drove around and visited a couple of the indoor soccer facilities in Ogden and Woods Cross and then on Saturday night we went to the hockey game. Wichita Thunder and Utah Grizzlies. Both teams tried hard to lose. Utah has a 1 goal lead with a minute to go and one of their guys lost his temper and got a penalty. Since Wichita was down by a goal with a minute to do they had nothing to lose by yanking their keeper and putting in an extra attacker so it was a 6 on 4, and with about eight seconds left they scored and tied the game. Then only four seconds later before going into overtime Wichita got a penalty so played the first two minutes of overtime a man short and at the end of overtime it was still tied. So each team picks three shooters. Utah's first guy scored and nobody else did on either side. So we didn't see a lot of goals, but we saw enough, and we did see a lot of fights, and in the end the Utah goalie had to stop their last guy from scoring to win the game and he did. 

Friday Night with My Best Friend

On Friday night we saw a whole bunch of this. Three power play goals, two short handed goals, and two breakaways. The other team took their goalie out and replaced him like it was his fault?

The Water Tanks Hike

On Wednesday we were filling the water tanks at Last Hurrah and so got to hike above looking for big horn and coming back to check the gauges to make sure the water levels were fine.

Between Rain Bursts

On Tuesday Jax and I got a short hike in between down pours.