Kyle is HOT!!!

Dudes, seriously! Check out his majesty!

So, last night was WAY fun! We went to the canyon for a "campfire" with Amanda. We thought it might rain--but that would probably just make it more adventurous. So we went and bought all the campfire essentials--wood, hot dogs/buns/condiments, Starbursts, Capri Sun, etc. We even had a dinosaur cake that Amanda brought. So, on our way to the canyon, it started raining. No big deal. Then we noticed freakish amounts of traffic heading in the opposite direction. The canyon was emptying--rapidly. We speculated on the reason. The obvious conclusion was that I Am Legend had happened in Heber, and everyone was trying to escape before it got quarantined. And we were heading straight for the zombies. We decided to keep going anyways, and got to the park we were going to hang out in--Canyon Glen. As we parked, we noticed the big sign that said that open fires were not permitted for the time being, because I guess Bridal Veil has been on fire for the last while, and it was super windy and the fire hazard was extreme (I guess just forget that it was raining, or something like that). SO--we considered our options. An empty park, where we were extremely vulnerable to zombies/raptors, OR that huge long line of slow-moving traffic?

We put the stuff that didn't need to be cooked over a fire into the cooler and looked for a nice spot to sit that was sheltered from the rain. We found a nice grassy corner underneath some tree cover, and it was quite pleasant. We consoled ourselves with the knowledge that if/when we were attacked by raptors (there were NO defenses for us there), at least Katy would spend her whole life avenging us. We were hungry, so instead of nice warm freshly cooked hot dogs, we put mustard and Doritos on the buns and supped on those. And they were good! You know how mustard is really good on most things? Last night we discovered that it's good on Nacho Cheese Doritos. Council Bluffs joined us eventually, and it was quite pleasant to sit in the rainy park and eat cold food. A fire might have been nicer, but it was still fun. There was a wild cat (we assert it was a baby bobcat) who wanted our food, so we left it some chips.

Emily was conveniently working at the miniature golf course, so then we got to play miniature golf in the rain! Almost everything is more fun in the rain. We had the course almost entirely to ourselves, because it was chilly and windy and rainy out. There was CRAZY lightning going on! We had a blast! Luckily, we didn't keep score. We started out keeping score, but once the game detiorated into a free-for-all (involving kicking other people's golf balls, stabbing with putters, and racing to finish) it got kind of difficult. At least we all know that Amanda lost. I hadn't mini-golfed for ages. So fun!

My prompt for this picture was "Eat that chip the way Nieman eats lettuce." The picture doesn't portray the subtleties of my performance.

Pondering her options

Yeah...they're bad

So ridiculous