Kicked my butt!

Wednesday morning Paul woke up and proceeded to ask us what we were doing that day! This is a normal occurrence, and usually we don't have an answer for him! Well that morning he asked if we wanted to go hike to Timpanogos cave. I think that every one's first response was "NO!" , but no one voiced this except Emma! I asked him what we were going to do with Nathan and Addison, so he got online and showed me that it was a paved trail so we could take the stroller! So, I conceded and after 2 1/2 hours getting everyone ready we were off!

Well, over an hour later we were inside the National Park! We got the little newsletter as we were pulling up to park and I happened to read "no strollers!" WHAT?? I told Paul that I was NOT going to do this hike if I had to pack a kid up it! He said that he would leave if I wanted to, but he thought we could do it! I, of course, didn't want to look like a wimp, so I said that we'd do it! Well, 1 hour and 18 minutes, 1 1/2 miles and over 1,000 feet higher in elevation we made it! Now I've actually been working out regularly for the 7 weeks, so I thought I was in pretty good shape...This trail was HARD!!! It probably didn't help that I was packing either Addi or Nate the entire time or that we started the hike at 3:45pm(the HOT part of the day), or that the trail is REALLY steep! But we did it!!!

Nate was really thirsty, since he'd worked so hard! Once at the top, we had about a 20 minute wait then we got to take the cave tour! This was really cool(literally too since it's about 47* inside the mountain) since we got to tour 3 different caves all hooked together. And see really cool formations!

The tour was about 30 minutes and about 20 minutes in Addison needed to "go really bad"! And Nathan thankfully fell asleep! We got to see the "Heart of Timpanogos" Which is this huge stalactite that they put a red light behind and really does look like a heart! Once we got out of the caves Paul and Addi headed off to the "emergency potty" and thankfully it was just in time! Oh the fun of trying to potty train Addison!! Once we were back at the van, Kassidy told me that the hike was worth it after we got to see the caves! Emma wasn't as sure, but she did like the cave. Nate was happy to have his bottle, and Addi was happy to be off the trail! Over all we agreed that the tour made our hard work worth it!

Don't they look happy? Fun family times!!