Sinclair's "Fall Social" at Snowbird

Another quick one... we went to Snowbird on Saturday for a department thing for work. Every year our department has a "fall social" at some family-friendly place. Lunch & activities are paid for and we usually have a great time. This year was Snowbird, so the activities were bull-riding, alpine slide, zip line, rock wall, & tram. We had a blast and the colors were spectacular! But sheesh, what was in those burgers? It definitely had the texture of mystery meat... ewww.

Just a quick one... Ethan wrote a book! If you weren't aware, he's kind of a Star Wars nut, so he wrote "The History of the Dark Side". I PDF'ed it for all y'all...

Well, here I am again at that mountain we know and love as Timp. A week after hiking it with the fam, we decided to take our scouts up there. They are, left to right, Nick Kennedy, Crick (yes, Crick) Spackman, me in my search & rescue/commando/tactical/survival vest, & Jason Draney. Jason's obviously not a scout (sorry Jason!), but one of the other leaders. We left Syracuse around 5:45 a.m., on the trail by 7:45 a.m., summited and back in the car exactly 8 hrs later. Yep, 15 miles in 8hrs, climbing to a stunning beautiful 11,749 feet. We had a blast...

Some of the funnier things that happened: heading up the canyon, we came around a bend and suprised a group of female joggers (prob students at the Y). Well, I guess the only really surprised one was the girl 3 feet off the road "relieving" herself. She jumped up as we passed her... sure hope she was finished... Hiking down the mountain, we were following a guy that was listening to the BYU game. Midway through the 2nd quarter, he got on this kick of yelling, "UCLA fumbled... BYU scored!" He did it 3 times!! Then, when we got back to the parking lot, we found, courtesy of our national parks finest in uniform, a parking ticket for $125!!! Wait, that's not funny... sure am glad I was the one to volunteer to drive that morning. Don't worry, Jana. I've written them a letter asking them to repaint the stripes at the parking lot AND to pretty please reduce or remove the fine.

Other than that, the only other thing to write about is Nicholas' & Ethan's football game tonight. I'm in Sun Valley right now, so I didn't get to see the game. I'll let Jana tackle that one (dang, I'm good...).

Later!!

Hiking a STEEP mountain!

Last Saturday we decided to go hike the caves at Timpanogas. We got there and got in line and the cave tours sold out to the person right in front of us! But who cares? We can still hike to the top and it will be totally worth it...right? We won't be mad at all when we finally climb the steepest trail known to man only to realize we can't partake in the only reward at the end of the steep hike...the tour of the cool caves with stalactites and everything. Did I mention the hike was steep? It was kind of a bummer to just turn around and go back, but holy cow it was beautiful up there. And it was good for my lazy behind and apparantly for my lazy calves because they are still sore. Aahh, good times...

Finally!!

The Jones Family blog is up and running! After paining ourselves trying to interpret java, html, and a little pig latin, we were able to finally apply an imple-say ackground-bay. Yep, a family of rocket scientists...

For those of you that give a darn, this is as much for you as it is for us. We decided it was time to journalize (I know, it's not a word. I'm a rocket scientist, not a word-type person who knows stuff...) where was I... oh yeah, we need to get stuff down for generations and stuff. What better place than on the World Wide Web! BTW, did you know that some smart people are designing a better web that's supposed to wipe this one off the face of the earth? Yep, it's true... it's called "The Grid". Scary, huh... a world without the internet. Sure would make this blogging thing easier. Read about it here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece

But then again, the scientists at CERN are also creating a super-collider that "might" create blackholes and wipe out our planet. This is all supposed to go live around Halloween. Oooh, scary... Again, why are we all blogging? Kidding!!

Anyway, all that aside, we, The Joneses, will do our best to keep you informed of our joys, our sorrows (ok, not really), and everything in between. Again, only for those of you that give a darn...