A few weeks ago for f.h.e. I got to be in charge of the activity. It was July 11th (7/11) and 7-Eleven was giving out free Slurpees... each 7.11 ounces of course. So I decided that for our activity we would get Slurpees and have a picnic... at the lake! We hopped on our bikes and decided that a refreshing Slurpee on the way back from our 10 mile ride would be more appetizing so we headed down 800 N, avoided the detour, and eventually jumped on the Provo River Trail. We had run the trail a week or so earlier and it was much nicer cruising down it on a bike... except for maybe not the big crack parts that we tried to pop wheelys over... those were a little unfriendly to my posterior. We also learned that unless you have a mud guard thing on your bike you get totally soaked from all of the flooding on the trail. So we took it slow through those parts and got there is about 20 minutes.
Once we arrived the nice young lady at the gate let us in for free since we didn't bring any cash. We decided that she is probably a recreational management major or something and supports healthy stuff like bike rides. (:
We biked around and came to find out that everything was totally flooded! I mean it makes sense since it's been on the news and everything, but I didn't think it was going to be that bad. After looking around at the beached fish carcasses we tried to find a place to eat that wasn't infested with lake bugs. Lucky for us there was a little pavilion right by the water that was significantly low in bug count. So we downed our PB&H before the bugs downed us and headed on our way.
On the way back we opted out of getting Slurpee because turns out everyone knew about the national event and decided to go for f.h.e. just like us. If I remember correctly Todd made me a yummy smoothie later on anyways. He's awesome, huh.
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| The view of the approaching thunderstorm across the lake was lovely. |
Beautiful pictures!
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