Tuesday, July 6, 2010

4th of July!

Kory and I had a couple adventures for this 4th of July. One perk to Kory's job is he will sometimes get free tickets to various events. This time it was to a Demolition Derby in Ogden. Neither Kory or I have ever been to a derby before and I was a little hesitant. How fun can watching cars run into each other be? We had a blast. We both had fun picking our favorites and cheering them on to the finals. Not to mention the fun we had watching people around us. Lets just say Demolition Derbies attract some...interesting people.
On Monday we met up with Kory's family at Dierke's Lake in Twin Falls Idaho for a little swimming, cliff jumping, and dutch oven-ing. I have never been cliff jumping. The idea scared me to death. There were kids there jumping from cliffs the height of the Rocket at Lagoon, into water, without seatbelts, or chairs! Kory got me up on a medium sized cliff and I stood there about a half hour before I had to climb down. :-( I did eventually jump from a rock. Yes, it was extremely low, yes, I got major butterflies doing it, and yes, I am very proud of myself. Here is a little video of Kory's jump. If you scroll forward to about 18 seconds you can see the grand moment.

And here is a picture to hopefully show the height a little bit better. If you look at the picture the rock he jumped from is not where he is actually standing but from where the strangers feet are in the upper left area. And if you look in the lower right area you can see the amazing beast I conquered. (right behind the bush :-) WOW!)

6 comments:

Mom Marchant said...

Charisse, you are sooooo cool!! I love the boulder you jumped from.:) Now Kory....He is my hero! What an amazing jump!! I'm with Charisse on this. I would be scared to death. Heights are a horrible phobia for me.

HeatherD said...

I am literally laughing out loud. However I refuse to write LOL. Awesome post! Actual video. I'm impressed by his jump. That's pretty dang high. The reason I can't stop laughing is looking at the rock you jumped from. HA HA HA HAHA

m@R(! said...

I LOVE DEMO DERBY'S. THere is one i Logan this weekend if you want to go???

Lindsey said...

Wow! That looks like a pretty scary cliff to me! Go you for conquering the rock! I've never been to a demolition derby but they sound pretty interesting, glad you guys had a good time! = )

Shane and Krystal Skaar said...

Oh man I'm so sad that I missed it!! Looks like you guys had fun though.

JPHOWARDFAMILY said...

I love all the pictures. You guys look great. Where are you living?