When Old Friends Meet

Two of my favorite high school buds came up to visit me this past weekend.  It was just like old times………….like time had never passed.  We even sat up till 1am laughing till it hurt.  They arrived Sunday evening and the chatting began……….immediately.  Fun!  Monday, after eating breakfast, I took them on a small tour up to the reservoir, below the dam, around town, and then we headed up the mine hill.  Here are just a few pictures that explain our day:

As we headed up the mine hill, I called my husband first to make sure we were headed the right direction.  I said over the phone to him….ok, so all we do is turn left, left, left – right?  He confirmed that that was the way to go so off we went.  Well, we took the first left and almost immediately I recognized that we were on the wrong road.  The further we went, the rougher the road got and I told my friends that I was really breaking my new baby (2006 Ford Explorer – purchased in November) in on this trip.  One of them stated that that was what baby was for…….he was meant to be an off road vehicle and he was probably really happy.  We continued on until we were able to turn around and I took the next two photos at the turn around spot.

After finally getting on the right path…………………..

At one of the places we stopped at, we saw this little tunnel/cave.  It was a really hot day but I’ll tell you, the air coming out of this little tunnel was very cold.  Off to the left of this little tunnel was an old building so I set my camera on the hood of my vehicle, set the timer, ran into the building and got a picture of the three of us.  And yes, I did look funny running to the window to beat the 10 second timer on the camera.

Continuing on………….

That evening, my husband started a fire in his Stove Tec and we all just sat around and talked for quite awhile.  Tuesday, we got up late, had breakfast, then went to the second-hand store here in town and then headed to the cemetery.  One of my friends does quite a bit of genealogy so we actually spent a fair amount of time looking at head stones.  I can honestly say I have never had as much fun at a cemetery as I had that day.  We took pictures of different headstones and this little guy who was sitting along side the lane as we entered the cemetery.

After our cemetery visit, we headed home for lunch and then we were going to head off to the craters but time was late so we said our good-byes and they headed back to Utah.  What an enjoyable, fun weekend.