There seems to be a secret club our there that only those who ride motorcycle’s seem to belong to. You have all noticed when you are following a motorcycle down the road and they come upon a fellow rider and they have this little half wave with their left hand. Kind of like they want to shout out “hi” to the fellow rider, but are way too cool to do something like that, so they settle for this little half wave.You don’t see too many Honda Civic driver waving out the window at other Civic owners and being all cool and sly.
This last week, I became a member of a slightly less cool club, the Scooter Club. I have been riding my bike to work every day since we moved here and finally had the deal that I was waiting for come up on a scooter. It is one step up from the bike, but still not quite as cool as the motorcycle riders seem to think they are.
I have followed a few motorcycles already and have watched them wave at fellow riders, then blatently ignore me as I pass as if I don’t even exist. It is quite comical, really, and it got me thinking about the scooter club and if we had some secret sign that I didn’t yet know about. Like I needed to send in for my card or something.
Well, finally yesterday I passed a fellow scooter rider and he gave me the scooter wave. I was laughing about it all the way home and rushed in to tell Cami about what happened. She just rolled her eyes and laughed a little.
But anyways, I guess from now on I will wave at all the scooters I pass on the road (there are a lot here in Utah) and maybe you will begin to see more scooter waving at each other.
…we like living here is the close proximity to the mountains. Even though we were fairly close in Colorado, it was not like we are in Orem.We are able to eave our house and be in the canyon in just about 5 minutes from a couple different directions. We can be to a number of different trail heads pretty quickly and enjoy this benefit of living here.
This last Saturday, I took the three boys and went up the canyon through Pleasant Grove to the Battle Creek trail. It was fun because it leads to a waterfall that is about half a mile from the parking lot so even Clay can come along. I ended up carrying him on my shoulders for about half of the time, but that is not a big deal, he had fun so it was worth it.
We took our time getting up there and stopped a number of times for snacks, water and to throw rocks into the river. The boys even went in it a couple times on the way. Eventually we made it up there and played around in the water for about a half hour or 45 minutes, then decided to head back down the mountain.
Here are a few pictures of the day up Battle Creek:
There is a cave about half the way up to the fall that the boys like to take a little break in. There is also a wooden bridge just before this cave that they call the “Cowboy Bridge”. Then this is the “Indian Cave”.
Here we are on the way up. Shortly after we started we all had hiking sticks, including Clay. He thinks he has to be exactly like the older boys.
Koby jumping through the river up by the waterfall.
Here we are getting back down the mountain. There is this small pool of water part of the way. It makes for another good place to stop and throw rocks and get dirty, so of course it is a good place to spend a few minutes.
Now up this coming weekend is our wards “Fathers and Sons” campouts and Koby and Spencer have been really excited to head up to it. I’ll keep you posted on the fun!
I have some more pictures on my flickr page here.
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