Paradise Valley

During the closing presentation at Camp Bethel, they played a DVD featuring the week's activities. One of the "out trips" that Allie chose was a hike into an area with natural water slides into pools of very COLD water. It looked like a blast so David got general directions and Allie led the way from there. We were told that the area was called Paradise Valley.



At the point this first photo was taken, we were walking through a fairly flat meadow. We had no idea what we would see as we came closer to the rock area.

As we came through the meadow and turned the corner, this is what opened up.

This is one of the shorter slides into water that was about 3 feet deep. Remember this is mountain snow run-off water. It was freezing!!!

From this point it looks like the girls could fall right off the cliff, but it was actually a gradual slope down into another very green valley.

Here are some videos to see the kids (and Uncle David) sliding into the water. The first is Lindsay going down the smaller slide.

Allie was the first to go down the bigger slide into a 11 feet deep pool.

Brave Meg took the challenge and slid on down!

And here's Uncle Dave showing everyone that us older folks know how to have fun too. Missi and I opted out of the experience - her because she is pregnant and me because the water was too stinkin' cold!!