A couple of quick things...

Just a quick couple of things I’ve done lately that haven’t made it into the blog.

A little over a week ago I decided to see sunrise at the top of Haleakala. Apparently it’s supposed to be pretty cool and a lot of tourists do it. The thing is, the drive is really long, and if you want a parking space you’d better be there at least an hour before sunrise to see it best. Most people leave home around 2am to see it. So anyway, a few friends from the ward and I decided to do it. And me in my infinite wisdom came up with the idea of pulling an all-nighter. So Friday night they came over to my house and we played a rousing game of Phase 10, then headed up to the top of the volcano. Luckily I took my headlamp because it was so dark up there. For a while we just lay out and watched the stars (lots of shooting stars). And I thought the sky in southern Utah was beautiful. I’ve never seen so many stars as this night. It was even tough to find the big dipper just because it was so crowded up there.

Eventually people did start showing up. And sunrise was dang cool. There were lots of clouds and I don’t know if that was a good thing or a bad thing. Was it worth it? I dunno – I certainly won’t do an all-nighter again. I’m gettin’ too old for that anymore.

The other thing recently was Christin and I went to a Wailer’s concert this last Saturday night. We went with a couple of Christin’s friends from work, and it was a blast! For how popular reggae music is here (and Bob Marley specifically) I was surprised how few people showed up for it. It was quite a contrast to the Jack concert not long ago. Well, there was lots of drinking and pot smoking, I guess that much was the same :)