Camping and the Cornfest.

 Since we were headed to Enterprise Utah for the annual Cornfest Saturday we decided to head up Friday and camp over at Pine Valley.  Something we've talked about doing...for few years.  And I've always wanted to ride bikes around the quaint little town of Pine Valley .

It was a great ride...coasting 3.77 miles downhill from the campground to the little town. But we paid for that pleasure peddling 3.77 miles back...UPHILL    Definitely counted as the workout for the  day.

Setting up camp ALWAYS come with a snafu for us.  This time it was finding out our rechargable air pump to blow up our air bed was dead.  (last time it was no tent poles!)
We ask a neighboring camper with a generator going if we could plug in and recharge...only to find out our pump was totally dead...not going to recharge again in this life DEAD. 

 So coming back up the mountain on our bikes I ask at the ranger station if any of the camp hosts might have a pump...no luck.  but one camp host had an air compress.  Our next challenge...how to get our blown up queen size air mattress from the camp host's RV to our campground about a mile away in our little Sentra.   On the roof driving really really slow.  

(Cheating)

(Doing what we both like...
Karl playing music and me playing with my camera)

Just before sunset we decide to explore the campground.  Only to discover we were just a few sites away from the creek and a trail that ran into a really nice paved trail...that run along the river and away from all the campsites   Then we spot a deer and then another and another. (and I forgot my camera back at camp)  We just sat on a big rock by the river and watched this herd of deer.  Then these very large well-feel cows appeared out of the pines and started moving towards us.  We decided they might be followed by a very large bull and that it might be a good  time to head back to camp.

Yummy...actually it was.

The next morning we could see blue sky out tent window but I could hear rumbling in the distance. It just kept getting louder and louder as the storm moved in.  I love laying in a tent listening to the rain.  But we were just on the edge of the storm and the rain didn't last long.   Taking advantage of the break in the rain we  quickly sprang to action and packed up our camp

Then we hit those trails in the campground for a morning bike ride to the reservoir.

So fun...even in the rain
This time the rain came a little harder and a little longer.

Unfortunately the weather only got worse in Enterprise.

 And when it was time for Aspen Ridge to play they decided to move the event into the school's multipurpose/lunch room.   Now the band most always play outside and the acoustics in the lunch room were crazy and the band had moved inside and set up so fast they didn't have time to really fine tune their sound system.  Yeah..they sounded bad.

Thank goodness they had a chance to redeem themselves and  played again during the dutch oven dinner.  This time they were able to tweak the system and sounded great.  Unfortunately Karl's brothers that came to hear them left after that first terrible set.

Oh well, sometimes life just rains on our parade.

So ya' just smile and dance in the rain.