Wow what a day! It was filled with amazing beauty/joy/fun. I’m going to share some pictures below. Hope everyone enjoys them. They really do not do justice to how things really looked. I hope my blog entries are able to share some of the joy I had.
After the post “Pictures along I-70”, the road got more and more spectacular. Then there was an exit sign for a viewing area. Wow the view was incredible. Really amazing. The whole area is called the San Rafael Swell. As you can see in one of the pictures, I overstepped and I had to hold on for dear life on one of those rocks. It went down quite far. I would not have made it, if I hadn’t managed to grab a hold of the rock. Then I had to wait an agonizing hour or so for the search & rescue team to arrive with the helicopter to pull me out of this misery. I sure was able to build up the muscles in my arms in that hour long wait. Hey I got a free helicopter ride out of that. Not too bad. Ha Ha ha. You know I’m kidding? From the look of my face in the picture, it doesn’t look so serious right? It’s all an illusion. I won’t tell you the trick though. :-)
Ok then made it into Glenwood Springs, Colorado. I was starting to get tired and really starving. Those 2 calories tic tacs just don’t last long. I wasn’t in the mood to be adventurous with dinner so a quick easy dinner at Pizza Hut was just perfect. Filled everyone up and tasted 1000 times better than the horrible hamburger. Green River was like the first town after 100 miles or so. Well Glenwood Springs is definitely a mountain town. Interestingly enough it’s even smaller than Cedar City, but people are not as friendly. I think it has something to do that it’s more of a tourist town. The front desk girl really had an attitude. What’s cool is though right next to the hotel there is a Gondola which takes you up the mountain to Gleenwood Caverns. They offer cave tours and you have to crawl through very tight spaces. Looks like fun. Your clothes may even get torn apart. Follow the link above to see how you could look like in the end. There is also a sling shot which shoots you out over the Colorado River around 1300 feet above. That looks scary. I’d do it, if someone else were brave enough to do it with me. :-) I don’t have time this time so I might have to come back someday. Sure looks like it could be fun.
So after dinner, back at the hotel I had to go check out the slide. The room is ok for one night, but the waterslide makes up for everything. Oh my I had so much fun! Around 9pm I went into the pool area and there were two small kids in the kids pool and their parents were watching them. The little ones said Hi to me. I turned the water on for the slide and I first checked the water temperature. It felt cold. Who cares. So going down the first time, I like froze to death as the water felt cold. I figured that’s not going to work. I went into the jacuzzi. I knew afterwards going back the shock would be really bad, but it usually warms you up and then you are fine. I was warm enough and yeah it was fricking cold to go down on the slide. But only the first time. Afterwards, the water temperature felt perfect. I don’t know how many times I did it, but I think at least a 100 times. I was training to be like in the Olympics. :-) I had it all figured out. In the 2nd curve you really had to keep your body extremely tight, because you had some serious speed and you’d hurt all kinds of things, if you didn’t. At the end you had to lift up your legs or you’d hurt the right ankle and as soon as you went into the water you had to make sure you blew air through your nose. There was also another way and that was to turn your body to the left at the end and you’d slide across the water with the belly. That was more fun than having to lift your legs and blowing air through your nose. I left like around 10:30pm. Pretty much the whole time I went up and down. For a few minutes I sat in the jacuzzi, but that’s it. It was so cool as I had like my private pool and waterslide. There was no one there anymore. You could run up the stairs for the slide and there was obviously no wait. I had so much fun with that. But I knew I would. Where I pulled all that energy from? I don’t know. I didn’t sleep much the night before and I thought I was tired, but that waterslide woke me up. I actually don’t remember when I have been the last time on a slide. It’s been a while for sure, but it woke the little kid up in me. I felt like I was 10 years old or so. :-)
Enjoy the pictures!
