More Havasupai

The next day we were so sore and stiff when we woke up. I guess that hike was just a little more than either of us were used to. We went to three of the waterfalls that day. We went to Navajo Falls in the morning and had it all to ourselves for a while. We spent most of the afternoon at Havasu Falls. There are several pools at Havasu and a lot of small cascading falls. One of the small cascades works as a slide which was entertaining. I loved sitting at the top of the small waterfalls. I was able to get some sun, but the water kept me cool. It was perfect!

Later on that night we hiked down to Mooney Falls. This one is more of a challenge to get to. You go into a little cave and when you come out of it there is a steep area to go down where you have to hang on to a chain so that you don't fall. At the base of Mooney Falls is another small waterfall that has a rope swing. Chris had a lot of fun swinging on it and landing in the water below. I didn't go off the rope swing, but we did jump off the falls together.

The next day we went back to Navajo Falls. Chris had been to Havasupai a few years earlier with his friends and they went cliff jumping off of some of the waterfalls. I told him that I wasn't too thrilled about the idea, but when we got there a bunch of people were jumping and it seemed to be pretty deep. The plan was he would just jump once and I was going to take a picture. Well, he finally got to the top and there was this girl who was just standing there, but couldn't get up the courage to jump. She was taking forever and before I knew it Chris jumped from a different spot than where everyone else had been jumping. I did snap a photo, but it wasn't that great because I thought he was going to wait for this girl to jump. When he swam over to me I told him that the picture I got wasn't the best and if he wanted me to get a good one he could go again. Unfortunately, this time when he jumped when he came up out of the water he just gasped when he looked at his hand. Sure enough, his wedding ring was gone and on our second anniversary to the day. I shed a few tears, but there was not much we could do. It was at the base of the waterfall he'd lost it and it was so deep there. Chris had hiked back into the village that day too, my feet just weren't up to it. He got me some bandaids for my blisters and also brought back some frozen Propel botels, they were such a treat. We saved the Propel for our anniversary dinner along with spaghetti and some more instant mashed potatoes. It was so good!

The last day we were there we got up at like 4:00 AM and packed everything up to hike in to the village. We had decided we'd take the horses out from the village since I still had pretty bad blisters and it would save us a lot of time. While we were waiting for the horses to get there we found out that the helicoptor ride was more affordable than we expected, only $10 more than taking the horses. We ended up making arrangements to take the helicoptor out rather than the horses. Neither Chris or I had ever ridden in a helicoptor before. I got to sit in the front next to the pilot. It was a beautiful ride that overlooked the Grand Canyon and only took us about 15 minutes. On our way home we stopped in Las Vegas and got to visit our friends Emily and Dustin. We also got to go to our favorite restaurant, Trevi, with them. We had such a fun time.