Maliya's Journal Entry

I turned 4 months on the 3rd, and to celebrate, we went on my first campout the very next day. It wasn't quite the secluded camp-site and the back packing experience that my dad likes, but it was the perfect site for me to "test the waters" of this camping thing. It wasn't too far from the mouth of the canyon, so it didn't ever get TOO cold, and there was running water which always makes things easier on my mom. And for me: there was lots of trees and things to look at.




I loved being outside all day, I never got bored! I was having such a good time, that I didn't want to miss anything by taking silly old naps, no matter how much my mom walked around jiggling me! There wasn't much of anywhere to put me down, but that was ok, because I had plenty of relatives around who were happy to hold me and play with me all day!

We set up camp Monday afternoon and left on Wednesday afternoon. During the day, the big people went to ride motorcycles and four-wheelers, hike up the mountain and rock climb. I watched.

This is the mountain that we all climbed up in order to do some rock climbing:









Uncle Jake helped take care of me while everyone was climbing.









We didn't get pictures of everyone rock climbing, but almost all of the big people did. This is Uncle Dale on the climb that all the boys did, and the girls went around the corner to do another climb.












All in all it was a great experience, but boy was I tired when we got home!