Father & Sons

This past weekend was our Father & Sons camp-out. Kaleb and I have been excited about it for several weeks in anticipation of being able to get up to the mountains and go camping. As the temperature finally reached over 100° here in the valley it was nice to be up in the pines enjoying some nice cool weather. We headed up around 1:00 on Friday and got to camp about 3:oo. After setting up our camp we just relaxed and Kaleb had fun with some of his friends from the ward.  Later in the afternoon we went on a ride on one of the Rhino's that had been brought up, it was a blast and Kaleb thought he was on a roller coaster ride.

We had some great burritos for dinner, then after hanging out by the fire for a while it was off to the tent to watch a movie (yeah it was rough). In the morning we woke up just in time for hot pancakes and sausage, and the weather was beautiful.

After breakfast, we broke camp and headed off for some more adventure together. I decided to take Kaleb to Tonto Natural Bridge which was not too far from where we camped. This natural bridge is the largest natural travertine bridge in the world. It was awesome. It is a steep 1/4 mile hike down into the canyon, where you can then climb your way though the base of the tunnel. We spent a couple hours exploring all of the cool caves and giant rocks before emerging from the opposite side of the tunnel and hiking our way back up to the top. We even saw a herd of javelina, which didn't seem at all to be bothered by anyone.

We both enjoyed our first visit to this natural bridge so much, that we decided that we would make a tradition of coming here during each father and sons camp-out. After our hike was over we headed back to the valley and over to my cousins house for his son Conner's birthday party. After 2 days of camping, hiking, pizza, soda, and cake, Kaleb was more than ready to head home. However on our way home I surprised him with tickets to his first Diamondbacks game thanks to my Uncle Dave and Aunt Tammy. We had a blast at the game and finally made it home about 9:30pm....unfortunately after a D-back loss.

Overall it was a great weekend and I can't wait until next year when I can take both my boys as Will should be ready to go!!