A Fun Weekend

On the week of May 16th through the 18th, Heidi and I had a girl's retreat. I had a flex day from school and if I didn't use it by this week I would lose it, so we decided to take a little trip. Some friends of our, the Mulcocks, offered to let us use their cabin in Beaver Mountain. As you can see it was a beautiful cabin in a beautiful setting. The weather was perfect and it was peaceful and relaxing. Going to the mountains just does something to soothe my soul. We practically had the whole mountains to ourselves. We only saw a couple of people the whole weekend except when we went down to Beaver. We slept, played games and watched movies. It was great.










Their cabin was decorated with the fishing and hunting decor, as you can see on the walls. It did give a cabin feel for sure. The cabin was spacious and beautifully decorated.

Since we weren't going to be home Duane decided to stay in Provo. He had a lot of work to do, so working on Friday helped him catch up some. On Sunday he decided to come down and spend the afternoon with us. Everything would have been great except for one thing. We couldn't get cell service on the mountain, we only had a home phone. Duane tried to call us to get the final directions one more time. We hadn't gotten home from church so when he called we didn't answer. I had given him directions but he missed seeing the sign to the road. After a while I started getting concerned because he was overdue. Finally the phone rang and it was Duane. Somehow he got his cell phone to work, and he called to say he was lost and stuck in the snow. I asked him where and he said he didn't know. I didn't think very clearly and just hung up and thought we would search some dirt roads off the main road. However, when we started to look we realized it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. There were tons of dirt roads off the main road. So we decided to go back to the cabin and pray that we could get hold of him on his cell phone again. We prayed and tried again. Luckily we did get him and he gave us some more information which helped us at least get a sense of direction as to which way to look. To make a long story short, we finally located him about 3 miles farther up the mountain. We know that the Lord blessed us and helped us find him. He was stranded in snow but a man had also found him and was trying to get him out. When we arrived he still hadn't succeeded but the man left and went to a ski lodge where he knew they had some cables and borrowed them without asking, went back and got Duane unstuck and then returned the cables back to the lodge. We were just glad that everything turned out O.K.


They had a very large swing outside the cabin. It took my whole armspan to reach the ropes but it was fun. You could swing and get the beautiful view of the lake and the forest below. All in all, it was a fun weekend. Duane made it back to Provo Sunday night and everything turned out great.