Havasupai!!

Thursday afternoon, we left to go start driving over to Havasupai. And dang, I had been there twice before, and I never realized it's a 4 hour drive! So anyway, we got to the rim about 8, and set up cots and such to sleep on for the night. But I shared a cot with Caleb, so I didn't sleep much until like 3:30 when I got in the car. Then we woke up at 4:30 and started hiking by 4:50 or so. We got to the campsite around 9, and it looked way different! All the falls (except Navajo) were basically the same, but the campsite was NOT! Not as shady as it used to be, but still super fun! :D The hike down actually didn't seem too hard. Quick too. I didn't even feel sore that day! But, I gotta say, that was probably THE longest day of my life! We napped, played in the river, ate lunch, and it was 10:3o. No joke. Haha ;) So we went to Mooney Falls, except I didn't go all the way down this time, because it's further down since the flood, and there were a lot of people trying to go UP as we were going DOWN. AND, I did it before, so I figured it was okay ;)

Saturday morning, when we woke up, I could NOT move. Not that it hurt to move, I literally couldn't! After I sat up, I had to use my arms to manually move my legs. I don't know why I was so sore since the day before I thought it was so easy! But anyway, FINALLY I got up, and every time I started walking, I looked and felt like an old lady holding my back. I honestly could NOT help it. After starting for a bit, I finally would get better, but once I sat down again, it all started over. In the afternoon we went to Havasupai Falls for a while, then walked to New Navajo/Emerald, which both are new and super cool. Except I couldn't go down them because there was no way I'd make it back up. Let alone the next 9 miles. So I sat on a rock in the shade :) We got to the village and ate dinner and left for the rest of the adventure around 4:30. We were cruising pretty good, especially Cal! He was speedy. Anyway, I started lagging behind the rest o' the teenagers, then Porter did too, so I caught up with him and made it all the way to the switchbacks with him. And, I didn't stop hardly at ALL because, once again, I knew if I did I wouldn't get going again. We kept making goals to help pace ourselves. We said to make it to the switchbacks by 7-and got there at 6:30. Then, we decided to be done at the switchbacks by 7:30. Which seemed reasonable, until it was like 7:15 and I realized I wasn't close and that we miscalculated... :) (Porter passed me up by this time). I changed that goal to 7:45. He probably made it up by 7:35ish...super close to the goal! Around 7:38ish I started thinking I wasn't going to make my 7:45 goal because I didn't think I was very close. So I once again changed it to 8:00. Next thing I knew, it was 7:44 and 50 seconds...I was at the top! :D It felt SO good to be done, even with a bunch of the little kids passing me on the way ;)

I thought I'd wake up today WAY worse than yesterday, but I'm actually feeling okay! Hallelujah! I could actually walk and get out of bed! Just after sitting for a while I'm sore, but I'll be fine. As long as before Nauvoo I can walk like a normal person.

So, through the whole thing, I only got a little sunburned, on my knees and a bit (not hurting) on my feet. My "dirt tan" wasn't really dirt, for the most part! :D I really did tan my legs a bit!

This trip was AMAZING!! :D And, I have to admit, I want to go back already ;) NEXT YEAR?!