Busy, busy, doing lots of stuff (don't ask me what, just stuff). On July 4 we had a BBQ with the Upstill family, then lit off fireworks on the street in front of their house. I was surprised that it was allowed because of the hot, dry weather, and the numerous fires already gone and going. As a side note, we observed the charred mountain behind Paige that caused her to be evacuated a few Fridays's ago. And, on the afternoon of the 4th, a fired started in Alpine and burned up the mountain - we could see the orange flames and the huge smoke cloud.
Yesterday we had another busy day planned, golfing early for the guys, then Park City, and perhaps a movie after. We got up to see it raining, and it rained until 3 or 4, so those events were rescheduled for today.
Last evening Paige had her book club, Scott was tired and went home, so at 7pm (when the group members started showing up) Kincade put the little girls to bed, and Chris, Rick and I decided to take a drive. It was going to be around the lake, but Chris was driving and started out north. Just beyond something Fork (I can't remember the name now, it was a small grouping of houses and an LDS chapel), with the sun shining brightly behind us, gray skies all in the front, we saw a rainbow. I have never seen one like this before; we saw the complete arc, from end to end. On one end the colors were extremely bright. What made it even more unusual was it a had a lighter complete arc just above it. We stopped to take pics.
These pics absolutely don't do justice to how incredibly pretty this double rainbow was.
We kept driving, sure that Tooele was just beyond the next hill. I finally got out the GPS and discovered that it was still 40 min away, so we turned around to go back and take a road that pointed to Mercur. Mercur was between two mountains (or large hills, I suppose), so we were in a little valley, lots of trees, rock outcroppings and the odd cave or two. After a few minutes, expecting deer or antelope to come jumping out at us at any moment, we came to a gate that said No Trespassing. We decided Mercur must be a mine of some sort. Chris was all for opening the gate and going thro, but Rick and I said that wasn't a good idea. Having been foiled in his trespassing plan, he took the next gravel trail (I can't even call it a road) up the mountain, claiming we needed to do some 'ploring, since we were in a Nissan Xterra 4wheel drive SUV.
I was kinda iffy about this plan but Rick and Chris thought it was a great idea. Chris also thought we needed souvenirs so he stopped to load up 3 rocks for Paige, who happens to like rocks in her yard, as do I.
All's well that ends well, and we ended up back on Highway 73, headed toward Eagle Mt. I even enjoyed Chris' adventure ride.
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