This weekend I had the wonderful opportunity of traveling home to the great state of Utah, and visit Zions National Park. Surprisingly, it was beautiful weather, and hopefully I got a little tan :) We were able to hike Angel's Landing, which is approximately 3 miles one way (by the time we finished it felt like we had hiked about a million miles). The hike takes you up the side of a mountain, and you gain approx a thousand feet in elevation (give or take a few feet). This hike is not for the simple minded, or the weak spirited, but if you do make it your are able to see the beautiful scenery of Zions National Park from one of its highest elevations. One of the funniest parts of the hike was the very last part, where you go up about ten switchbacks, which are all covered in ice... let's just say it can be really fun to watch people slip and slide their way up and down :) The next time you are in the Southern Utah area, don't miss out on visiting what is my favorite national park :)
Monday, February 20, 2012
ZIONS NATIONAL PARK
This weekend I had the wonderful opportunity of traveling home to the great state of Utah, and visit Zions National Park. Surprisingly, it was beautiful weather, and hopefully I got a little tan :) We were able to hike Angel's Landing, which is approximately 3 miles one way (by the time we finished it felt like we had hiked about a million miles). The hike takes you up the side of a mountain, and you gain approx a thousand feet in elevation (give or take a few feet). This hike is not for the simple minded, or the weak spirited, but if you do make it your are able to see the beautiful scenery of Zions National Park from one of its highest elevations. One of the funniest parts of the hike was the very last part, where you go up about ten switchbacks, which are all covered in ice... let's just say it can be really fun to watch people slip and slide their way up and down :) The next time you are in the Southern Utah area, don't miss out on visiting what is my favorite national park :)
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Perpetual State of Band Aids
As you know, I have been in college for almost a month, and oh my the time has flied! But ever since I have gotten here I have found that my right knee ALWAYS has a band-aid on it. There are many reasons for this constant state:
1) I always cut myself shaving on the right knee.
2) I am always running into walls, and it seems my knee always takes the pun.
3) I fall constantly. Somehow I manage to slip on the only patch of ice (which just happens to be 6 inches in diameter) and skin my knee.
Since I constantly have a band-aid on my right knee, I have found that plastic band-aids are no good. They fall off all the time, that is why it is the flexible fabric I can trust :)
So I found this poem on band-aids, since I am no good at writing at poetry (I leave that to my best friend)
Bernina's Band-Aids
Bernina had a Band-Aid on her elbow and her chin, her ankles, knees and forehead, plus her shoulder and her shin. Another two were on her ears and ten were on her toes. She'd one on every finger and a big one on her nose. Her Band-Aids were the coolest that her friends had ever seen. A few of them had leopard spots and some were neon green. A bunch were lit with lightning bolts, or stars and crescent moons, while some had superheroes from the Saturday cartoons. Bernina's now in trouble for there's just one little catch; she used up all the Band-Aids but she didn't have a scratch.
--Kenn Nesbitt
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