Our trip to CO, day 3

We forewent another swimming session at Cedar Pocket (since we didn’t want to have to wash our sandy bottoms again, lame? Maybe. Definitely not consistent with the theme of the previous night’s movie selection) and headed out to the Wal-Mart in Cedar City, Utah. When I’m in California, I call it Wal-Mart, in any other state it’s the Wal-Mart. Nice people there in the Wal-Mart in Cedar City, Utah!!! Holy cow, I consider myself to be warm and friendly and I felt at a loss when these people showered their sweetness on me, I just smiled and kept saying “Thank you!” We got a potty seat for June, a BB gun and BBs.

We made a stop at the Starbucks and the gas station and I drove us on through Utah. Knowing the boys wanted to fish, I suggested we stop at a place I kept seeing signs leading to – Fish Lake. We agreed to check it out and so I followed them there signs. On the way, I kept seeing signs to “Salina” and I didn’t want to miss the photo-op, I have a dear friend named Salina as you all must know. I pulled over at the next Salina sign and attempted to get a good shot of me and the sign. It was tricky due to the angle of that sign against the sun, and the fact that I couldn’t adjust my aperture. I was using the camera in my phone, so I could send the photo to Salina immediately with a nice “missing you” message. Just then a big guy, wearing a t-shirt that read “Keep staring, I might do a trick,” named Wade approached me. I admit, he made me nervous at first, especially since we were in the middle of nowhere by then, but I’ll be darned if he didn’t get the very best shot of both me and the sign together! Thanks again Wade!

Sid and Jonny were testing out the new BB gun right about then, so I had time to chat a bit with Wade and bid him goodbye before I got to try my hand at firing the new gun. I’m so excited to brag that I hit the bottle on my first shot! I quit then and there and haven’t fired anything since! Sid and Jonny also hit their targets (though not on their first shots, thank you very much).

On to Fish Lake! We took in the most gorgeous scenery on the way, hooey! The lake was pretty and patch forests and summer cabins freckled its perimeter. As we sat fishing I heard a rustling in the bushes behind us and just then out dallied the cutest little critter! It was orange and black and had the sweetest little ferret face. I’ve been meaning to search google images to identify it (get back to you on that one). Later on, Sid tromped up to the motorhome to grab something and spied a snake slithering through the grass! I looked just in time to catch a glimpse.

After some more fishing time, we drove off, back to the highway. Again our breath was taken away by the scenery. I took several drive-by shots. We also kept coming across free-range cattle, they were so cute, but leary of us. Aveline and I, in trying to follow a couple of cows, ended up in a little ravine with a creek trickling through it, we gathered that the cows must drink from it, but we also felt that fairies must live there.