Sunday, August 2, 2009

Stewart Falls and Five-Sevenths

Last weekend for the 24th of July - (Pioneer day, for the Non-Utahns) John's brother Travis came through on his way back home from BYU-Idaho. So we went and hiked Stewart Falls:

It was really pretty peaceful up there and we had fun going down to the bottom and getting really close to the water. Travis even crossed the river at the bottom to the other side.

This weekend we had planned on hiking Timpanogos cave, but when we checked on tickets for the tour, there weren't any left! We were sad! But we read in the BYU newspaper an article on the "Seven Wonders of Provo" (Kind of tacky, I know) so we decided to go around and take a look at what Provo had to offer. ;)

The first one was the totem pole outside the University's Museum of Peoples and Cultures. Neither of us knew it was there! (we tried to make faces to fit in with the totem ha



The next was the obelisk memorial to the US Veterans:


The fourth was a historic tree on center street. It was planted in 1927 and there are supports all underneath the branches to help it stay up. It was really cool!

The fifth was the stone amphitheater that is further down center street. According to some people, everyone and their dog gets their engagements and bridals done there. I'm glad we didn't go along with the trend, even though it is a really pretty place to have pictures :)

The sixth was the cougar outside Lavell Edwards Stadium. I'd never been to see the cougar, we became quick friends...and my noble steed ;)

He and John shared a friendly handshake :)


So that was our adventure. As you might have noticed, that was only 5 of the 7 wonders. The other two are the King Kong Cone (a GINORMOUS ice cream cone) and the Limeade from some random place whose name escapes me. ;) But since we'd just had a big dinner, we didn't want anymore food!! But we had fun with these five :)

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