Our Cruise: Catalina Island

In June Joe and I went on a cruise with Joe's family to Ensenada and Catalina Island. It left from San Diego. So we drove to Vegas and spent a day there and then got up early the next morning to head to San Diego. We were running late and worried we might not make it and we ended up making it just in time. We were the last group they let on.

Our first night on the cruise at dinner.

We had to take a smaller boat to get to Catalina. It was so beautiful there. We went snorkeling and looked at that the shops. We loved snorkeling and cant wait to do it again. It was crazy how many fish where right by us. They had a del sol shop which i was so excited about.

Waiting for the comedy show that wasn't really funny!

Our formal dinner night

Ensenada, Mexico

We were waiting for everyone to get up so we could get off the ship!

La Bufadora

We had some amazing sunsets on the ship.

And Of course the food is amazing! We had an amazing cruise and cant wait to go on another!

Green River Fishing Trip!!!!

Joe caught the first fish of the day!!!!

The real monster brown trout i caught but after joe got him off the line he swam away before i could hold him for the picture.

My monster brown trout.

This borwn trout has awesome coloring, it was bright yellow.

My big rainbow trout!

Joes big brown Trout!

Is that a fish? Joe found this peice of wood and we thought i looked like a fish.

Joe fishing with his new fly rod and reel

On Sunday we headed up to vernal, ut and stayed the night there. The next morning we drove to Dutch John which is an hour away. We went up there to fish on the Green River.

Our Longest Hike this year!

So two weeks ago joe and i decide to go camping with some friends. Well instead of just staying one night we decide to go backpacking to these three lakes joe tells me are 2.5 miles up. He also says " Its an easy hike". Well after we have been hiking for hours and i have a 40 pound pack on my back. Oh and by the way the hike is straight up and is covered on rocks. So instead of an easy hike it is listed as strenuous. All i could do at this point is just walk faster so we could set up camp, there was no turning back at this point. So we make it to the top and camped for the night. Well the next day we go for a hike to look for spanish mines that are supose to be up there and we acually found one. It was pretty cool. We looked for an old miners cabin that was suppose to be up there but we never found it.

After our hike we head down and as we are hiking down joe tells the truth. He says " This is a 10 mile hike and it is listed as strenuous on the website and that is without the pack". Well we made it down in one piece and we had a good time!

Moab and our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

For labor day weekend and our anniversary we went to moab for the weekend. It was so fun, I had never been to the arches.

As soon as we started to hike up it started to rain so we were soaked by the time we got down. It was so fun, and it was still hot enought out that it didnt matter.

we were also so wet by the time we got back we didnt see anything else in the park. We also we donw to the river and fished for cat fish. i caught one on my first cast as soon as it hit the water. We forgot thr camera in the car so we didnt get any pictures.

Here is our little cabin we stayed in.

The last day we went to kens lake to fish and this is all joe caught.

After the lake we went to the moab music festival. Every year on labor day they have a free concert in the park. They also had free popcorn and lemonade. It was so much fun!

Yellowstone Canoeing Trip!!!!!

Joe and his two brothers and I went on a two day canoeing trip. Well it was suppose to be three but we missed our camp site the last night and had tyo canoe 15 miles to get back to the car.

The waves got so big we had to stop on the shore ALL day. The worst part about it is we could see the marina across the lake.

I was kinda glad we had to stop at first cuz my arms where so sore after three days of padding, but then sitting on the shore all day gets really boring.

The second night we had alot of deer come through our camp and i was trying to get as close as i could to take some pictures. The next morning i unzipped the window on the tent and right there stood a deer.

While we were there they had a huge fire.

Here is one of joes fish. I caught the biggest on and of course he didnt take a picture, but he caught more fish then i did.

I had a lucky lure i was fishing with and i kept catching fish on. Joe lost the other five we had and i kept this 0ne the whole time. Looks whos losing lures now! haha

This was my first canoeing trip and we had so much fun. We cant wait to go next year!