Snakes!

Actually there was only one snake.

My sister Christina and I  took the kids up the canyons to take their pictures with the leaves.  We had fun a lot of the time; groaned for a good deal of the time; and cried a small portion of the time.  Unless you count the inward sobbing that came later and lasted an hour.

These are some of the pictures.  Max wouldn't look at the camera.  So there are hardly any pictures of him that are decent.  

I took a picture in black and white.  Then I realized that duh we came for the autumn colors.

After we spent a lot of time trying to get kids to look and bribing them.  We headed back to the car.  I discovered my keys were missing but never fear I found them a minute later smiling back at me from the inside of the safely locked car.

Yay!

Holly let Christina know this is something I do all the time.  

There was no phone service so I started hiking up the side of the road to see if there was service a little further up.  Fortunately a couple of brothers pulled over to help.  They drove a little out of the canyon and called Rob who was an hour away.  Rob got the extra key and came to our rescue.

While we waited the boys wrestled on a dirt hill for an hour.  Holly moaned.  Christina and I silently contemplated and cried.

Oh and there was a snake that slithered across my foot.  My mostly bare foot (the second time that day that I thought better of my sandals).