Holiday Weekend

Happy INDEPENDENCE Day!

We had such a fun weekend together! We were going to go to the Mogollon Rim to camp but we didn't make 'reservations' 3 days in advance...so that plan was out. So Saturday we ran errands, visited the grandparents and went out to lunch. Then that night we saw fireworks from our street, which was fun! Sunday, I made green tomatillo salsa for a yummy snack to eat while we watched fireworks in Tempe. Monday morning we got up and drove to Strawberry to hike to Fossil Springs. Our legs are just now finally starting to feel normal! It was all downhill to the springs, which were beautiful and so fun to play in! George is already ready to go back even thought the hike back out almost killed us! It really wasn't that bad...or maybe it was. Either way we weren't in our best shape to hike uphill for two hours after hiking down, swimming, and climbing and jumping off the cliffs. George jumped from the waterfall, I wasn't quite brave enough! By the time we made it back to the top and to our car we were exhausted! We got home, cleaned up and fell FAST asleep! We had a lot of fun! Let us know if you wanna join in for the next trip!

Oh, and the pictures are super out of order...I don't understand how to put them on in the right way :(

George Jumping off in front of the cave

Another jumping pic

The beautiful rocks and water

George climbing behind the waterfall

Aqua socks courtesy of Walmart!

George getting up to the waterfall to jump!

Waterfall

Swimming around

From the top!

It's hard to tell but there was this whirlpool thing on the left. The water was too strong to get in it but we heard that when there is more water you and jump into it and swim out the bottom into the river. The water was so clear you could see in the river the swirling water from the whirlpool!

Stream

After we made it down and changed into our bathing suits and AQUA SOCKS!

This is what we saw when we first got the bottom. Icky water that was like 5in. deep. We were so hot and I was ready to freak out if we didn't get to actually swim.
Thank goodness we kept on a hikin'

About half way to the springs and still doin good!

The beginning!