Hey, you've got some road trip in your hair.

Freak dude. Freak. Dude.

I've tried to describe this short little trip to people and I just keep stammering, "It was so..amazing...holy...you wouldn't believe..I can't even...ugh, you just should have been there."

You should have been there. But it wouldn't have been the same. And the bug was already full.

These are my cousins Whitney and McKay, we were childhood friends every summer when our family would make the trek to Utah. Alison and I loved having sleepovers with these crazy girls and they'd teach us the funniest games and we'd shoot BB guns and play in the ditch behind their house.

And then we grew up. AND I MOVED TO UTAH!! Now I get to be their REAL friend ALL the time, not just summer-cousin-friends. And I love it.

McKay described our trip as "soul settling." I couldn't agree more.
There is something about being with girls, driving, singing along with Bieber and GaGa at the top of our lungs, the wind tangling our hair into an unbrushable mess-


Cafe Diablo, 5 star restaurant in Torrey, UT. Get the rattlesnake, it's devine.
Mayan Tamales, and a cactus thing.
Oh yeah, and for dessert, get The Bomb.

Then we laughed and laughed, they must have put something in our food.

Then Whitney almost barfed up a hundred dollar meal.

Then Whitney made me laugh so hard I almost barfed up a hundred dollar meal.

Then we stole a group camp site and lay right between the fire pit and the picnic table so we could see every star in the sky. And what a sky it was. We caught the tail end of an August Meteor shower in one of the least light-polluted skies in the country.

Then we laughed some more.

Then we slept.

Day 2

We saw some real estate. And some of this:







Then we ate fresh fruit pies and scones at a little country homestead.


Now comes the cool part.

GOBLINS!!!



Goblin Valley State Park

We went crazy:


(sorry McKay, I stole this from your blog...obviously)


So there you have it. Cafe Diablo, done. Capital Reef National Park, done. House hunting in Torrey, done. Goblin Valley, done. Don't lose my sunglasses out the window, done.

I haven't had that much fun in a LONG time, thanks so much you guys.