Camping With Mitch & Katey

We have so loved having our friends Mitch and Katey in town!  ILP was a great chance to meet friends from all over the country, but now we are all sad because it is so hard to hang out when we all live in different states!  I much preferred living on the same floor with all of these people who came to be our best friends.  Luckily we trapped Mitch and Katey into having to come to Utah by sending some of their luggage home with my mom.

They've just been camping out in our living room most of the week, but yesterday we decided to embark on an adventure!  We packed up the trunk with way more than anyone needs for a night out, and were headed up American Fork Canyon!

Last night was so much fun, just hanging out around the campfire and eating food.  We reminisced on our Chinese adventures and planned about a million more trips to go on together!  I absolutely love having friends that are as adventurous and spontaneous as us (except Mitch and Katey are probably more adventurous and spontaneous - they told us about their night they spent in a bathroom in Europe when they couldn't find a place to stay)!

We tried to stay up late, but it is hard to stay up much later than the sun goes down!

After a peaceful night of Mitch blowing up a glass jar by trying to cook bacon in it (perhaps around 3am), we all arose to start our hike!

I picked Scout Falls because I love the beginning of that hike with all of its wildflowers.  Plus it is a short one and we are all getting kind of old.  It still wore us out!

We finally made it to the top and just sat for a while enjoying the view!  Mitch and Katey both kept gushing about how beautiful our mountains are, and it made us so proud.  Utah is gorgeous!

Oh, and the waterfall was cool too.

After our hike, we headed back home and Mitch and Katey departed for Texas.  We wish we had longer, but hopefully we will adventure together again soon!