RFTC and Other Updates

It's almost midnight and I have no idea why this seemed like a good time to blog. I have to be at work in six hours. Oh well. Here goes anyway. Warning: the following post is simply a smattering of my life as of late. Chronological order is not guaranteed.

Last Saturday was Raft for the Cure (RFTC). It also happened to be my first official day as a river guide. I was a little nervous since this event involves about 350 people on the river who are all there to help cure breast cancer. But I safely and hopefully enjoyably, got my very own boat of ten people down the river. Due to my lack of a waterproof camera and copyright issues, I don't have any pictures to show you. Sorry.

So Saturday was a long day. The guiding part of it started at 6:30 am. Right from there, I went to work at the store for the rest of the night. RFTC also involves dinner and a concert at our store. I got to sit inside all night, hear the band and the joy outside, and stand at the counter. It was very boring. And I didn't get home until about midnight. One of my co-workers caught my mood quite perfectly in this picture.

I was so ready to go home.

I also ran the Wasatch Back relay again this year. Our van managed to get there super early again this year but that's ok. It allowed for great pictures like this one to be taken:

There were several of these that were equally as ridiculous. But I thought we looked the most bored in this one.

And here we are at the finish line.

The other day I finally bugged my boss about going on a sunset jetboat tour. We offer jetboat tours through a company here in Moab and last night I finally got to go on one! It was great. The boat goes about 30 mph down the Colorado river. It's a great way to see the scenery. And plus, afterwards they serve you this amazing dutch oven dinner. Holy smokes it was good.

The Colorado river by jetboat.

Yesterday I woke up and realized--oh my goodness. It is July 1st. I only have about five more weeks to live in Moab. And I feel like I haven't even scratched the surface of what this place has to offer. So I've decided that I'm actually going to go out and do things. Good idea, huh? So this morning, I hiked to Corona arch and repelled off of it. All in about an hour and a half because one of us had to be back to go to work. That was a fun sprint down the trail. Mom, this is the part where you avert your eyes...

See that little speck floating a few feet below the arch? That's me! A beautiful, and massive arch. Some of you may have seen it featured on Planet Earth, the deserts episode. Yeah, I'm cool.

Well hopefully, mostly due to my new found determination to do everything cool in Moab, there will be some great posts soon to come. But for now--that's all folks!