Cecret Lake

This week was hard on me.  I love that my kids are involved and I absolutely love watching them and supporting them in all their activities, but sometimes I just miss hanging out with them.  This week I missed them bad, I wanted it to be summer again, so we could play and spend time together.  I decided to run away for the day.  No school, work, football practice, soccer practice, primary, games, or homework.  I wanted a day to just be with my kids, and today was awesome.  I saw this hike online up in Alta ski resort.  The pictures were beautiful, and I've wanted to go on this hike for a couple of years.  I was able to talk the kids into a hike even though they were sore from football games, just because online it said "relatively flat and is more than a stroll than a hike."  Well, I call lies on that ones, because this hike was hard and almost all uphill.  At the end, there is a sign congratulating you on your final ascent to Cecret Lake and there before you are awful switchbacks full of huge boulders and a steep incline.  We couldn't turn back, so we went for it, Gator and I in flipflops and all.  We made it, and it was gorgeous.  We soaked our tired feet in the cold water, wishing we could jump in, but there were signs everywhere that said no swimming, darn it.  Coming down was easy and helped us forget the terrible time we had hiking up.  Alta is so pretty, and fall is coming to the mountains.  This time of year makes me so happy!

Coming down out of the canyon, I had to pull over and take some pictures by these amazing trees.  It got me so excited for our fall drive day in 3 weeks!

 My excitement was short lived, however.  An awful smell and smoke clued me in on the fact that I didn't have brakes.  It was scary to think about with my kids in the car, luckily there was a pull off near by and that is where we remained for the next 2 1/2 hours until Clark and PJ made their way from home to where we were.  I set off this morning wanting a day with just my kids and that is what I got.  They were pretty cranky with me, knowing it wasn't my fault, but it was hot and we didn't have any water.  I grabbed a blanket out of the trunk and we walked to a shaded spot.  They are great sports about it now, and all is well.  All part of the great memories of the day.