Adventures in the Outdoors

Last week I had the awesome opportunity to facilitate Outdoor SOAR. It's our four day long, outdoor adventure orientation session. It was sooo much fun and I enjoyed the students so much! They were all really outgoing, fun and just excited to be there and to become a part of Utah State. That change in attitude from the bored, "I don't want to be here" attitude we get at normal SOAR days makes such a difference! Here are some of the activities that we participated in:

• Picnic at Tony's Grove
• Volleyball Games
• Tin Foil Dinners
• Minnetonka Caves (so cool!)
• Beach Party
• Met the very drunk wife of the owner of all the Flying Js. She had a babysitter for herself. haha She was VERY friendly!!!!
• Dutch Oven dinners and scary story time!
• Hike the Crimson Trail in Logan Canyon. I was the leader and the beginning of that hike is soo intense! I had to make the students stop like 4 times so I could catch my breath. haha But it was so fun! I love that hike.
• Picnic at First Dam
• Ropes Course. Technically, I just watched. But it was still fun.
• BBQ the last night.
• Made lots of new friends. Those kids were great!!!

I am so grateful I had the opportunity to participate in Outdoor SOAR. It was definitely more like playing than it was work. I am such a lucky girl to have a job that I love and makes me feel like I'm making a difference in the lives of these new students.