Our first stop, Utah

We got to our Grandma and Grandpa’s house for a week. We swam, we went to Rob and Lindsey’s new house, I went golfing with Dad, but my favorite thing was going up to the canyons.

We went up to the canyons and decided to go on a hike there. On the hike we saw two rattlesnakes. The first one we saw was when everyone was walking over huge rocks. There were cracks in the rocks. One of us looked in one of the cracks and saw a rattlesnake. We didn’t know what type of snake it was so we called Dad so he would be faster. He told us it was a rattlesnake so we went as fast as we could past it. Then later on we had to jump over a river. Katie was in the lead. We were walking up a dirt path and Katie yelled, “There’s a rattlesnake!” so we went back across the river and went back to the camp. Later on we decided to go back home before bedtime, but Katie, Dad and me decided to camp there. We set up our tent and went home to get some sleeping bags. Once we got home my aunt Nikole said it would close at 9:00. We had 30 minutes. We ran and got our sleeping bags, put them in the truck and drove back to the camp. We got there at least one minute late. Luckily there were some people and it was their job to help people if there was something wrong so they let us in and we got to camp there. It was really fun. First we had our flashlight on and told each other stories. Then we asked each other our favorite things. Then we decided to go to sleep because we were getting really tired.