We arrived in Boulder in the late afternoon so we had time to go set up camp and then return for dinner. We camped at the Calf Creek campground and there was hardly anyone there so we had a lot of privacy. We even set up our hammock that Marc brought back from Costa Rica! Our campsite was like 20 yards from a little swimming hole in the river so we went swimming before we went and got dinner.
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| Stella at first got really mad when we tried to get her in the water. She wouldn't even let me hold her while being in the water. She finally got in with her daddy holding her and when he tried to hand her off to me she would freak out. I don't think she trusted me in the water:) |
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| Stella loves the hammock! |
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| Ahhh, yes. |
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| Hell's Backbone Grill. That cat was in the exact same spot when we came back for breakfast the next morning. I would park myself there, too. |
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| Stella wasn't so happy to be taking a picture.
The food was so yummy. Probably the best thing I had was homemade biscuits with sage butter. Amazing. The ribbon pasta with oyster mushroom cream sauce and braised greens and pine nuts was also very good. And the rosemary limeade. And the smashed sage potato pancakes. And just about everything else. Okay moving on from the food.
After eating dinner we sat in the field for a while because it was so relaxing. Molly did some business and we picked it up and Stella was so fascinated by the plastic bag! We would throw it to get it out of the way and she would chase after it and bring it back like a game of fetch! Who knew a bag of poop could be so entertaining?
 
This was Stella's first camping trip so naturally I was a little nervous. We set up her Pack'n Play in our little two person tent and made sure she had familiar things like her doggie and her favorite blanket. She cried a little bit but went to sleep and slept the whole night! She even slept through us trying to sneak into the tent when we got too scared sleeping under the stars (sounds a lot more romantic than it is).
The next morning we went back to Hell's Backbone Grill and I won't go into more food details (I meant to take pictures of the food but I was so busy enjoying it that I forgot...whoops). They have the most beautiful garden out front which is where they get some of their herbs and also some flowers that they use to garnish their food:) Stella loved the garden and was pointing out the flowers (she says flower!) and looking at the little stream they have going through it. So cute.
This was our favorite road. It's a few miles outside of Boulder headed toward Escalante. It's called Hogback Road, I think. There's a cliff on either side going down into lush canyons.
If you look down one side of the cliff you can see the hike we did, Calf Creek.
There was expected thunder and lightening that day so we were a little worried since the hike is a canyon (flash floods...) but we asked around and apparently Calf Creek isn't a big concern since there is a lot of high ground. It actually made the hike kind of nice because it was overcast and cooler compared to the extreme heat the previous day.
      Being silly...   
Lucky us, it didn't start raining until we had packed up the car and were pulling out of the campground.
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