Has it been 2 months....really!?!?!

I knew in the back of my head that I had not updated the blog in awhile but I could not believe it has been over 2 months. Time is flying! So what's been up in the world of John, Karen and Miles? Let me see if I can remember. Camping near Lake Cuyamaca, Traveling back to the NC for Steph and Jason's wedding, John going to NYC for the Asics/NYC marathon....and speaking of running I'm fixin' to run a 1/2 tomorrow. Whew!

Looks like I'll have to recap all the above in segments....
Early October we headed East for a weekend of camping with some of John's friends from work. We stayed in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park just a little over an hour from the house. We hiked, endured crazy winds, rain, and beautiful sunshine all in the course of 2 nights. Here are some highlights.

We hiked the Garnet Peak Trail in the Cleavland National Forrest. The winds were INSANE...gusting into the 40mph. I thought we were going to get blown off the side of the mountain. There were tons of crazy cloud formations that day; I call this UFO.

More cool clouds, I'd never seen such dense clouds in formations like this before. I call this catch the wave.

Gnarly tree branches, typical harsh landscape on the cusp of the desert

Yay, we survived the night of rain and wind! John's mad skilz came in handy as we rigged up the tarp to keep us dry so we could continue hanging out and drinking beer into the night.

The gang: John, Karen, Terri, Amanda and David

and of course....Mileserific!

The VitroRobertson gang

On our way back to town we stopped at some cool waterfalls and went hopscotchin'

Lucky for us the rain we had the night before helped make for some great waterfalls