Friday Morning

We got up Friday morning, and off to Slide Rock. This place is absolutely beautiful, and we could spend a few days here!

 

We got up Friday morning, and off to Slide Rock. This place is absolutely beautiful, and we could spend a few days here!

The color is a strong, red, and orange, with a ton of lush green trees and plants. The river runs through a valley with smooth rocks formed as slides. There are shallow and deep areas. The water is freezing, but inviting. I could spend days here, playing, laying around, and hiking up the river. The kids love it, as do Scott and I. We took a hike up the river, where the boulders turn to a beautiful blue, gray.

Jake quickly found the small cliff everyone was jumping off and jumped a couple times. No one else wanted to do it at this time. This whole trip, Jake has been talking about jumping off the biggest cliff…..so we ventured over to the big cliffs where some were already jumping. Holy cow, is it high! We had to scale a rock wall just to get down to where he wanted to jump from. That was scary enough, but then to get to the edge of the cliff where they were jumping was crazy!! Scott and Jake planned on jumping. They were ready, counted down, even ran to the edge like they were going to jump, but just couldn’t get themselves to hurl their bodies off a perfectly safe wall, into an ice cold pool of water 50 feet down. I could completely understand, as I sat on the rocks taking pictures with absolutely no inkling to jump. THEN Amaya piped up and said she was going to jump. Really??? You go girl!! She counted down, we had our cameras ready, and she jumped! Just like it was no big deal. She did say she brushed her back against some rocks or dirt at the bottom, which scared me, but was all good, and PROUD! She amazes me. She is so shy, but is able to do the most random stuff most people will not do. Awesome! After the jump, we went back to the slides and played some more, and Ryan got in the line to jump off the 15 foot wall. It took him a while, but he did it! After more time, Jake said he wanted to jump off the big wall again, so the boys went up the rocks to the big cliff, and Amaya and I walked down the river, over water falls and boulders, to get to the base of the cliff jump. Again, we were ready with cameras, but Jake couldn’t do it. I am proud and excited that he tried. After that, Amaya and I scaled about 80 feet of rocks and boulders to get back up to the top. Phew, that was so fun! Back to the car we went to get on our way to Page, Arizona.