Memorial Day

fyi: if Jamie Horspool says she knows a really fun place to go spend the day...

she is lying and wants you to suffer! 

just kidding...kinda!

so us Jensens were struggling with where to spend Memorial Day.

I suggested Locomotive Springs, because Jamie had said it was so fun for fishing and hanging out. 

So after much debating my suggestion won (it often does with the Jensens)

First off it is clear out in the west desert which I love.

Clear past ATK/Thiokol. (which we stopped to look at, I have never been there so cool, probably less cool for Kevin since he goes there everyday but he is a good sport!)

So we get there (oh and we were in the van. With no AC. The van was full. Very uncomfortable.) And find a "spring" with no people so we set up our day camp there. The boys begin to fish catching fish about 2 inches big...really...we eat lunch and just hang out as we see this...

forming around us. It's actually the entire front of the storm it was so neat to see. Although a storm coming was not very neat. We could see some old abandoned structures, and since the fishing wasn't riveting we headed off to explore.

This is the abandoned train car. Don't you love the candid pictures that capture personalities. This is one of those perfectly.

This is the abandoned house. It was very neat. Minus the giant rat (some people referred to it as a field mouse, but to me it will always be a giant rat) We had some dating arguments for the structures. Some people believed that this was like pioneer structures. But the oven and the wiring hanging out from the walls led others to believe it was much more recent. But it makes it more interesting to think it is a pioneer structure!

We also thought this little building was abandoned. That was until the giant bird flew out of the roof and hit me...not cool. and very scary!

This wasn't the picture I wanted to post, and I am still not good at this. But we took some "welcome to your first home" shots, oh so not funny! 

So we stopped getting pictures shortly after this, when the pre-pictured storm arrived and we had flash flooding and the sand turned to the slippery slide as we raced back to covering in the middle of the desert so we wouldn't be struck by lighting!

It was a pretty crazy day but we had fun! And if you go, be sure to wear LOTS of bug spray, and a hat.

This picture makes me laugh everytime! it reminds me of the seminary video where he doesn't pump the well! its perfect huh!