BEST. DAY. EVER.

Before I get too caught up...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!

I LOVE YOU!!!!

Now on to the best date and day ever! 

After work Garett and I went on a triple date. We went with our friends and roommates Weston and Melissa (his girlfriend), Sam and Liz. (Weston & Sam are Garett's roommates and Liz is one of my roommates).

We headed off around 1pm to the ice caves. The drive was long and as my reached the entrance to the dirt road we realized we would not make it in Weston's car. Garett and Weston seemingly deceived by their poor memories believed the road to only be a mile and suggested we walk. Without knowing better we agreed. About 10-15 minutes into the walk a suburban comes by and offers us a ride. We gladly accept. 

A bit down the road we got stuck, but luckily we had 6 guys to push the car out of the snow. For the last half Sam, Garett and another kid decided to ride holding on to the back of the car.

TO give you an idea of the road conditions....only people with 4-Wheel drive can ever make it down the road, not including the foot of snow, rocks and an overall East coast feel of being VERY hilly, but on a smaller bumpier scale. Needless to say they had a little too much fun riding and bouncing along on the back of the car.

Once we reached the mouth of the cave it was a slightly too compacted travel of snow with lots of rocks. Inside the cave it was ice and about half of it was done crawling on your hands and knees. The ice had little trails worn down into snake-like ditches that ran through each section of ice. There was one part where you laid on your back, head first and crawled through on your back with you feet pushing against the rock above you to move along. There was another part with a rope where you put your back against a HUGE slab of ice, with your feet against the rock and semi-slide down on your back holding the rope. 

Once you reached the back of the cave there were 2 places worn down into slides and off to the right were stepping spots to climb up. Before we went sliding we had to bust out the glow sticks. We sprayed each other and the area around us about 20 feet in diameter. We turned off all the lights and we could see almost perfectly. There really is something awesome about sliding around in an ice cave spotted with glow juice. It's as if there were slip n' slides in the heavens with stars all around. Sounds epic huh? It was!

After much sliding in the cave we headed back out and back along the crazy bumpy road, praying around every turn and hill that we would not get stuck. We didn't and made it to our cars safely. We joked with the people we road with that they pretended to be nice and give us a ride (which they really were quite nice for doing so). They joked that they just wanted our weight and man power when they got stuck. Somehow the whole ride back with filled with much laughter with a car full of strangers. 

We decided that after a long day of being cold and with wet knees and bottoms we would head to Cocoa Bean to enjoy hot chocolate and cupcakes. We ended our date, a date none of us will EVER forget. 

So see ya around! bet you wish you were be now.

Sorry.

I guess Rexburg can be pretty awesome.

-Meg