HAIR CUT HAIR CUT HAIR CUT

OK, so 6 months to the day of my agreement with Jaren about our hair, I finally caved in. The beard was shorn to a quite short length, and the hair was cut quite drastically. I spent UEA weekend with the scouts down at Goblin Valley and when I came home and when I went to wash my beard and usually when I wash it is just soap and water. This time it was soap, water, and tons and tons of sand. Also my hair, it was atrocious. I couldn't take it anymore so Sunday night IT ALL CAME OFF.
So last week I took the scouts to Goblin Valley. We left on Wednesday at around 4, it was my dad bringing his motor home, the 2ND counselor in the bishopric from one of the wards in the stake, then two Venturers from my ward and then one more boy from the 25Th ward. We arrived in Goblin Valley later Wednesday night we all set up tents, well the boys and I, my dad and Guy Marler slept in the motor home. Thursday we got up and had breakfast and then asked my dad where Little Wild Horse Canyon was. He was sure that it was directly north of us. After walking for about 30 to 45 minutes my dad realized that Little Wild Horse was more to the west of us. We returned to the motor home and drove down the road and finally found the trail head. It was amazing there were three parking lots and bathrooms and a big old information board and a guest registration book. We hiked up the slot canyon to the top where it turns into Bell Canyon which isn't a slot canyon. It was really cool I haven't been there for a long time so it was really nice to be able to returned and hike all the way to the top. We came back and started making dinner, they were aluminum foil dinners. Then we went to the Valley of the Goblins at night. I had never been there at night that I can remember so it was really cool to see everything all lit up from the full moon.
Friday we woke up and went over to the Goblins again. We spent all day roaming around the valley. My dad went down a few years ago with Jaren, my brother, and they found another valley of goblins and so we went down and found it again then we kept going south and we hiked up on one of the taller plateaus to get a better look and found that there were four different valleys. I was impressed with how many different locations there were and how different they all looked. After quite a few hours of climbing and sliding and throwing sand clods at each other we went back and started making dinner. Tonight we were having little smokies in barbecue sauce. We cooked them in a dutch oven and then started peach cobbler. Since my dad brought the motor home we had vanilla ice cream as well. It was a really good meal. Saturday we woke up and went out search for some old Uranium mines. Most of them were cemented in but the boys found one that wasn't, so we climbed in and started exploring. After an hour or so we turned back and found our way back out. We then returned home. We had a really good time and so did the boys.