Monday, June 23, 2008

Capitol Reef

This weekend Brady and I went camping at Capitol Reef (southern Utah) with Ryan and Steph. Brady and Ryan have so many memories of Capitol Reef from many years of camping there with their family. It was fun for me and Steph to finally get to experience it, and now we can share in the memories too!


The first night, the actual campsite was full, so they told us to go to another area down the road. We were a little bummed at first, but the area we went to was completely empty and beautiful! We ended up loving having one night completely to ourselves. I've never seen so many stars so bright! We could see the milky way, the big and little dipper, satellites, Venus, and shooting stars! It was awesome :)

After a yummy breakfast, we moved over to the other campgrounds. There was a stream down the road with a waterfall. It was really pretty and refreshing!



I won't bore you with ALL the details, but if you're interested you can watch our slide show. We had a fun and relaxing time eating smores, playing cards, hiking to Hickman's Bridge, playing bocce ball, reading, swimming in the waterfall, and hanging out!


10 comments:

Carrie said...

those pics are BEAUTIFUL. i might need you to tell me where that is because we're trying to plan a camping trip and that looks like a great spot. that's so cool how clearly you could see the stars!
ps, i was actually going to invite you guys to come to the concert in the park next sunday so you don't have to invite yourself :)

Eric said...

That looks like so much fun! You guys are like professional campers. How far away is that site?

AmyJ said...

Pretty pics, Tare!! You and Brady are cute!!

cat.janer said...

Taryn you are a supermodel. Tonight is sushi night! Prepare y'all selves!

Anonymous said...

You are super campers! I'm impressed! Beautiful scenery, beautiful people and lots of fun!
~mom

Ashley and Aaron said...

Hey Taryn! I'm so glad that we're blogging buddies. Looks like you two are quite the travelers as well. Camping and a cruise soon-how exciting! Hope you're doing well. Somedays I miss the good old days of freshman year.... :-)

caroline said...

wow! you're pictures look like post cards -so picturesque! looks like you guys had a blast! We love camping!!
ps- Tare your teeth are looking super white!

Allison said...

Those pictures are really pretty. Gorgeous landscape. Camping is very very fun. I'm glad you had such a great time!

ryan and danielle said...

ok so what camera do you guys have and did you use photo enhancement stuff on your computer?!?!? i am such the picture freak and i need to know how to take such FABULOUS pics like that! that camping trip looked like so much fun! i wish we had something worthy of taking pictures of besides the super flat patures out here. hahahaha. thats texas for ya!

you guys are so cute together!

Brady and Taryn said...

Danielle- We have a Canon Power Shot Elf camera. We really like it. There's a cool feature called color accent where the picture will be black and white except the color you choose. They also have tons of setting options, one is Vivid colors, which is what we used for all these pics. For the first pic of me with the cowboy hat, I did adjust the exposure and saturation, just cause i thought it looked cool :)