What is new?

So many crazy things are in abundance in mine and Tyler's life,

lets start making the list.

*We are both going to new colleges.

Tyler in the same program,

I am now transferring to Culinary Program

*With the new school means new place. 

We are moving. GAG

*We sold our apartment.  

Yep in that short amount of time it is sold.

1 day I tell you, 1 day it was on KSL and now it is sold.

And the sooner we get out the more money we get back.....

predicament, I think yes.

*We do not have a new place to live.  

*My wonderful husbands birthday is tomorrow.

Any great gift ideas?

*We have become very adventurous lately.

Going on a lot of hikes.  

I do think this might come to a stop.

Due to the lovely occurrence that happened on Saturday.

Which leads me to my story,

This hike went from heavenly bliss, to holy shit.

This past lovely Saturday we decided to go hiking.

We were going to the hot springs/waterfalls up Spanish Fork Canyon.

We did our research. 

It looked beautiful and fun, 

we would hike then swim and hike back.

The hike up was so pretty.

We saw so many waterfalls the whole way there.

When we were almost there my big toes started hurting.

Yes I thought nothing of it, my feet were just hot and getting a little blister.

We arrived to the beautiful hot pots and waterfall.

Pretty right?? 

Let me tell you it did not smell even close to pretty.

Well I remove my shoes and yep my toes were attacked by my shoes.

No blister, just rubbed them raw to the point of almost bleeding.

There was no way I had hiked all those 2.5 miles to not get in this water.

Mistake number 1. 

I GOT IN.

In this smelly water with open wounds.

When I first got in it stung, but all wounds hurt when they get wet.

Mistake number 2.

I stayed in even though they kept stinging. 

Yes, I know. What was I thinking?

 Well finally we decided to go.

My wonderful husband gave me his socks,

to add cushion to prevent more rubbing my skin even more raw.

Mistake number 3.

I had only eaten one single hot pocket that day.

Is that enough to get you energy to survive a 5 mile hike.

No way.

I immediately realized I had no energy and knew this was going to SUCK.

*My toes hurt, BAD

* I had zero energy

* I was hungry

* I was wet

*I was thirsty

* I was grumpy

* It was getting dark

* It was getting cold

With these factors soon this hike was no longer fun.

My legs were numb.

I started crying from so much pain in my toes.

Real fast, Toes are dumb.

When you hurt them they hurt really bad.

You know when you stub them, and you swear.

Because it hurts so freakin' bad.

Toes are dumb.

Finally we reached our car. 

Yes I made it out of some miracle.

We got in the car and got warmed up.

Then it hit me.

Mistake number 4. 

I hiked 2.5 miles in wet shorts.

That equals one word.

CHAFED LEGS.

I had no idea my legs were getting chafed because they were numb.

So when they warmed up I knew, it was bad.

Now not only were my two big toes hurting, 

Now I had my inner thighs extremely chafed.

Those of you who have not experienced severe chafing.

You are luckily.

Those of you who have.

God bless you.

I went home and took the most miserable shower of my life.

It stung my toes and chafed legs the whole time.

I cried.

Then I went to bed.

You know when you go to sleep you don't feel your pain.

That was my strategy.

Well I woke up with the pain still there.

Which included, two big toes, now not only rubbed raw sores, but now infected.

(From getting in the egg smelling water)

And chafing that was so bad, it had started to bleed.

To all of you that are thinking.

Wow this girl is a wimp. 

Let me tell you I have definitely had my fair share of painful situation in life,

and this one is just plain miserable.

With other things it only hurt to do certain movements of certain things.

These hurt to do anything.

Especially the chafed legs.

Here is a list of things that causes me pain

*Showering

*Peeing

*Pooping

*Walking

*Moving

*Pretty much anything

except sitting and not moving.

Let us just say, that hike and me are not friends.

I don't know if I would give it a second chance. 

Many things were learned from this experience.

*Do not get in egg smelling water with a open wound.

*Do not hike 2.5 miles in wet shorts.

Yep that is the moral of the story.  

The one thing I wish I could learn is how to heal chafed skin.

Any ideas anyone?