Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Back from Girls Camp

Alpine, AZ--July 6-10, 2009
We love being in the cool pines but,
this is how we all looked at the end of the week after 4 days at girls camp!
It kinda makes ya stir-crazy!!!

This picture is of the stake leaders doing a bit of Michael Jackson's Thriller--notice the blue gloves on their left hands?! Pres. Kartchner, Merrill and Curtis got into the act too! It was pretty funny!

"Indiana Jones" and his 4th level gals and airplanes he had them make.


Miss Natalie on her horse "Waylon"! She also went Aussie style rapelling (as well as regular style), and "superman" traversing! Awesome! You Go Girl! (. . .and she was nervous about having to "rough it". . .)


On the way up to camp, Kelli was driving a load of 7 people plus a trailing luggage rack on the back when her car had a complete blowout of the back right tire going 75 mph---AAAAAAARRRRGGGGG!
Not just a flat tire, but a complete blowout along with a shredded to the metal tire, a ripped off side trim and a shattered right rearview mirror!!! It was pretty scary, but we are pretty sure she had some Heavenly help getting the car safely to the side of the road with no rim damage to the tire. 12 girls and 3 leaders waited on the side of the road for our hero--Bishop Jones--to come and rescue them! (The leaders tried to jack the car up to change the tire themselves, but it was so flat that they couldn't get the jack under the car safely and without going into oncoming traffic to jack up the other side.) Our Hero came with his floor jack, got the car jacked up, took the tire off, went into Wilcox (about 2 miles away), bought a new tire, came back and put it on. When we tried to start the car to be on our way, IT WOULDN"T START!!! The battery had died during all this trauma! So, we went on a hunt for jumper cables, but to no avail--no one had any! So, our Hero, drove back into Wilcox and bought some along with a new battery and some extra tools. Just as he was returning, the Highway Patrol FINALLY showed up and gave us a jump! (Our tax dollars at work!) Our Hero followed us to the next off ramp to make sure the car wouldn't give us any more trouble and then he turned around to go home. Thank goodness he was still at home when Kelli called at 7 am to come rescue us and thank goodness his boss said he could work from home that day rather than drive into Tucson after the rescue!
All went well on the ride home--no blowouts or dead batteries!!!
We loved going up to the cool mountains, but are glad to be home too!