{"id":1924,"date":"2007-06-03T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/03\/trip-photos\/"},"modified":"2007-06-03T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T04:04:00","slug":"trip-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/03\/trip-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hopefully, Paul will carve some time to post a few pictures and archive some of his memories of the experience in his blog. Until then, the shutterfly site<\/a> has some selected pictures — (warning: the album starts with two of Kate… we needed to print a picture for school and I forgot to sort them out) — and only has 80 or so of the 3000+ they took. The pictures on the site are ones that I quickly chose to send with Will for show-and-tell on Monday, and as a result, they heavily feature Paul. Once the bulk are up, I’ll post the link.<\/p>\n

At risk of leaving spoilers, here are a few of my favorite stories:
— Hiking up to the Granaries (the guides’ “test”) and the view
— Putting life jackets on like diapers to float down the Little Colorado River, which looked like Willy Wonka’s chocolate pool due to a recent flash flood
— Terrifying 40 or so feet of super narrow slick rock against a tumble-to-your-death chasm to get to upper Deer Creek (I think I would bow out of this one… yikes!)
— Rainbow at the waterfall at lower Deer Creek
— Seeing a “sun dog,” a huge rainbow in a circle around the sun. I never even knew there was such a thing!
— Finding out that the “swamper” (assistant to one of the guides… in this case, her husband) was a long-time flyer for FedEx and knows Melanie’s Dad.
— Hearing that Havasu Creek is really as bright blue and lush as the pictures… “it was like Fantasy Island”
— All three jumping off the high point (about 30′) above Pumpkin Springs, together, into the 55 degree water below
— Learning that my Dad did EVERY hike, waterfall jump, and whatever other activity there was to offer (go Dad!)
— Campfire stories and bonding with new and interesting people while floating down the river
— Hearing Paul say, “It was just how you describe being abroad when I’m not there: all I could think was how I wished you were there and how excited I was in thinking about when we could come back to share it all together.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hopefully, Paul will carve some time to post a few pictures and archive some of his memories of the experience in his blog. Until then, the shutterfly site has some selected pictures — (warning: the album starts with two of Kate… we needed to print a picture for school and I forgot to sort them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}