Final Destination... I mean, Final Part of Havasupai

LAST DAY.
It was so nice to have so much time down there. We felt like we had time to do everything we ever wanted, but not too long to get bored. It was such an incredible trip, but it was time to come home.  We were missing our BABIES!!!

Bright and early on Friday, June 4, 2010 we had to send out 4 of our packs on the mules.  Thank you boys for carrying the other 4 packs so we girls didn't have to! : )

After taking down the rest of camp we headed towards the village and spent most of the day at the New Navajo Falls. This was the other waterfall on Luke's top two favorites.  It was a really fun waterfall to jump off of.  Or so they said. I just wasn't in the mood.

Both of us loved this waterfall for the room behind the 30 foot waterfall.  It was easy to access-- you could walk on rocks to it instead of swimming.  You walked through the heavy down pouring water on the ends (felt like a bucket dumping on your head) and then you walked into a huge room running the entire length of the wide waterfall.

A little way down the river from the fall was a deep, slow moving, pool that was really fun to jump into from the overhanging rocks.  Some kids from the village joined us!

Since this is a new waterfall created from the flash flood 2 years ago, it was interesting to see the soil developing into the lush green covered limestone.

It was a bit scary and somewhat hazardous to walk on because it was like stepping onto Styrofoam-- sometimes your footing was safe, other times the soil would dissolve out from other you.  Did I mention it was really sharp? And the water was swift?
Not a good combo!  We came out with some wicked scrapes and scratches.  And GREEN from sliding over the mossy rocks.  It was ALL worth it though!

I call this picture, scraped, bruised, burned (look at those lobster legs!) and GREENED

Beautiful turquoise water accented by a perfect rainbow.   

After we had played to our hearts content (and fully baked) we hike the rest of the 2 miles from the campground to the village.  It was 105 degrees.  With that heat we decided to wait until the trail was shadier before attempting the hike.  We began our hike around 6 pm. and made it to the switchbacks just after twilight.We got to the top around 10:30 pm.... wow. WE DID IT!

We drove 2 hours to the closest city (Kingman) and at 2 am we finally laid down to sleep in a hotel.  By 9 am we were on the road again and had a nice, looooong, ride back to Spanish Fork. If only we were done. We still had another hour and 45 minutes to see our little girls.  How happy we were to see them...... and if i dare speak for them, I'd say they were pretty happy to see us too!

What an incredible experience! We enjoyed it so much. The place was perfect, the company was fabulous, and the adventure was................. all we could have hoped and dreamed it to be!

Thanks everyone who made this trip possible. Blake and Chantel for arranging it, the rest of the crew for being such fast friends, and Luke, for working so hard in school so we could justify the trip..... and our wonderful parents for watching our little girls for us.