SILVAS: July 2008

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

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On Sunday I sat in inner courtyard of the V&A museum cooling my feet in the fountain. I took all these photos shootin' from the hip, but I was so entertained by this animated child and his

super soggy diaper that I couldn't help it.

After a while, the mother came over, removed the diaper and replaced it with shorts. He played for a while and then decided the shorts

were cramping his style, so he got his father to help him remove all his clothing. He played freely and openly in the fountain until security came and his parents clothe him again. Still, it was good entertainment for us all.

Well, I went on a date while I was in London. I met Paul at the singles ward and on Monday night we went to dinner then saw Wicked. Who knew I'd be dating on my Lonely London trip?

Paul and I couldn't resist snapping pictures of these plastic outfits. We giggled as we followed them all the way onto the Tube. Everyone who saw us snapping pictures laughed with us.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Chicago

July 16th - 21st

Most of the week was hard, exhausting, no-time-for-food work, but we still managed to do dinner at some pretty fancy restaraunts, see The Dark Knight, and take a quick trip into down town Chicago after CHA show hours. At least, some of the girls went in to the city.

Laura Giddens, Laura Miller, Andrea Smith, and Amy Walton

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Backpacking in the High Uintas

Jason, Derek and I headed into the High Uintas last weekend. We originally planned for Back country Yellowstone, but I since Derek had been backpacking there the weekend before and there wasn't a suitable lake for cliff jumping, I convinced them that we could have an equally exciting experience on a little hike I did five years ago to Hidden Lake. We started at Trial Lake and packed in to the perfect campsite at Wall Lake. Jason grabbed his fishing pole but didn't catch anything. Probably because Derek and I were cliff jumping only 20 feet away. The next day we packed a couple miles further to Hidden Lake. Jason grabbed his fishing pole again and started fishing, I grabbed my camera and started taking pictures, and Derek grabbed his ridiculously large knife and started practicing for his own episode of Man vs. Wild. "I wonder," Jason said as he cast his line into the water, "if we could cut that tree down." He motioned to a tall dead tree waiting to fall into the lake. Derek was all over that one. The two boys dedicated hours to that project. They sawed it halfway through before the little saw wouldn't reach anymore. The tied the rope around it and swung it back and forth. That's when Derek noticed the whole roots system shaking. He started excavating the roots and sawing them off. Still the tree got the better of him. We finally convinced him to leave reassuring him that if he had had more time, "Wild" would not have won that episode.

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