We got the house clean on Saturday, and Lydia had a German group lesson and then we actually did leave for Goblin Valley (unlike yesterday’s false alarm).
On the way down to Goblin Valley, we listened to The Great Brain. It is a young adult book about a family growing up in Utah. It is hilarious. The premise is that the protagonist has a brother who is brilliant, cocky, scheming, yet warm hearted and always coming up with crazy schemes that either cause a lot of trouble or completely save the day. It is so entertaining. It reminds Lily entirely of Tom Sawyer.
We arrived around 9PM and had delicious s’mores on the camp fire. Then we all played a fun game where we made up a story together using game cards.
Here are two videos and some pictures:
Then we tucked the children in. This is about an hour or more before Clarissa actually went to sleep. She was up well past midnight, I assume due to her late car nap and all her excitement.
Clarissa was still up, but Lily and I killed some time sitting by the fire together while Clarissa was in the Yurt, at one point looking out the window at us. It was so healing to just sit and stare at the fire next to my love. We went deep and talked about death. It was very cathartic to process that topic with her in such a serene environment. The stars were perfect and breathtaking against the rock walls that ran into them.
In fact Lily even woke up a lot at night, and she said it was because the stars were so pretty, she just couldn’t sleep deeply. One of my favorite things about Lily is when her joy is so powerful, that it robs her of sleep. I love that woman :).