Spring Break!!

Spring Break always comes when you need it the most! Tyson been working so hard with school, getting ready to graduate and trying to get accepted, and really nothing seems to be working at all for him. Thankfully I had a BRILLIANT idea...We headed up to bear lake for a couple of days! It was an awesome get-a-way! Very much needed. When we got up there...well there wasn't really much snow...at all. So the idea of snowboarding was totally out of the question. Wednesday we played over by the Marina. Thursday was the day we were going to go snowboarding, but didn't. So we tried to come up with many different ideas of things we could do. It all basically boiled down to one thing. Ice Cave. We thought about going over to my grandparents cabin and walking out to the lake, then we thought about just going to his parents cabin and walking out but really nothing sounded as fun as just going up to ice cave! So off to Paris Canyon we went...We said that as soon as we ran into some snow we'd turn around. Well we got going and there was no snow! We got about half way there and there was still no snow! Well Ice Cave is still in the mountain and so we did eventually run into snow, but it was only a little bit and eventually it got deeper and deeper. However, we weren't really aware of how deep the snow was getting. We weren't sinking or getting stuck at all on the trail. So we kept going. We finally made it to Ice Cave. I believe that because we've only been there in the summer, we didn't think about what would happen if we went off the trail to the parking lot. Well let me show you what happened...

We sunk!! Normally Tyson isn't taller than his jeep. To be honest we laughed about it at first. (Which is a good thing because I think it kept us in a good mood the whole time and kept us from getting mad at each other...) In all honesty we've been stuck in worse positions...and this didn't even look bad!! We could totally get out of this! Well after walking up to Ice cave, and then coming back we learned that we really wouldn't get out. We lifted the jeeps back end up on the high lift jack, and got the back tires out of the mushy snow and on the hard trail, but the front end...we'll that end was stuck. We tried sticking logs under the tires and everything but nothing was working. After praying for strength, we realized that we had to hike out. Reality set in.

It was 1:30. It was 10 miles out. Crap. So we started hiking. After a long three hours, we finally made it. I wanted to cry. Once we were out, we finally had service and we had to call Ty's parents, his dad's jeep and his winch seemed to be the only way we'd get out without paying a fortune. Well My phone had died, and Ty's phone only had 40% remaining. We thought we'd charge it back at the resort, but then we remember the chargers were in the jeep...10 miles the way we just came. We called Curtis and Michele. They said they'd come help. Well we had solved the Jeep problem. As much as we could for the moment. Now we were faced with our next problem. Paris was about 17 miles away from where we were staying. Crud. I said well we've hiked 10 lets just keep going. I've been praying for a desire to exercise so I could get healthy, guess the Lord knew there wasn't such a thing as desire to become healthy so He decided to just stick us in a position that would force me to exercise...right. But Tyson's idea was better. I think. I have now had my first Hitch Hiking experience. Tyson walked into a gas station and asked if anyone was headed South...This older couple was and they were nice enough to give us a ride. I will forever be thankful to them! They were very nice, and come to find out they had many stories about becoming stranded themselves, and having to hitch a ride for help. So in a way they knew what we had gone through. Once we got back to our room, we just sat on our bed. Dazed. We had no car. Thankfully on the way up when we stopped for food we bought some frozen pizza's, because that's what we ate Thursday night. We had no way of getting to any of the restaurants there!! Luckily Thursday was the start of March Maddness, for if we didn't have that to watch all night I probably would have really gone Mad. I was so consumed with fear that Thursday night I only slept a mere 4 hours. I think that's all Tyson got too. So Friday rolls around and Ty's parents showed up to help us. Well it was snowing that morning. Turns out there was 3 inches already on the ground. All I could think of was "What the HECK am I supposed to learn from this?!!?" So Curtis is like well the least we can do it try. Let's get going. Well by the time we got to Paris we were way out of the storm. It was nice and bright and sunny and it was NOT snowing!! phew! So we headed up the trial with them and we got to the Jeep. They hooked the winch up and pulled and out popped Ty's jeep! What an adventure!!

And since Curtis and Michele were up there and we were back at ice cave we decided we'd go visit it again. :)

I learned a lot on this trip though. Well now since i'm home and I've had time to get over the anger and fear, and I can laugh about it. First thing. The whole three hours hiking out Tyson and I hardly talked. Sure I tore a ligament in my foot and it hurt, Tyson did support me when it got to bad. Yeah we were exhausted and it is hard to walk and talk and all that stuff, when you're tired. And we were both beating up ourselves for letting this happen. Ty was saying he should have been smarter and not pulled off the road, and I was blaming it all on me because going there was my idea to begin with. But in reality none of that should have mattered. We were both with each other, why not make the most of it. If I was supposed to take any of this to heart, or if this happened for a reason and we could get out by ourselves, it was to only teach/show me that Tyson and I need to be better at communicating. We need to enjoy what time we have together, and laugh. We used to stay up talking on the phone until 4 am before we were married. Now we're lucky if we stay up until 11 watching tv, or playing the WII. It's taught me that I need to trust him with my thoughts, desires, comments. I can't shut him out. If we do end up moving and going to med school Tyson is going to be the one whose always around, and if i want to share things, I'm going to need to learn to share them with him. Not even just medical school though, We have FOREVER, and if we are going to make it through forever I need to learn to open back up. We need to go back to before we were married, when we were dating, and talk...all the time...maybe not stay up until 4am, i'm more looking at the other part, but hey if we do end up staying up until 4 am just talking, I wouldn't care. I love Tyson and as crapy as it was to spend our spring break hiking 10 miles and worrying about Jeep being stuck forever, I'm thankful for the enlightenment. Another thing was also reinforced to me...stay on the path...Do the things you know you're supposed to do. Don't ever try to stray from the path. Because if you do you don't know how deep you're going to fall in. Even if you're only a little bit off the straight and narrow way. There's some things that are deciving and if you take that step you may end up sinking a lot farther than you thought you would. Nevertheless, with anything that happenes in life, there is help. We will always be able to get out. It may take a lot of hard work, learning to be less prideful, but help will always ALWAYS be there. In this case it was Curtis and Michele, and I'm VERY very thankful that they decided to spend their Friday and day off to come rescue us.