FIRST ACTIVITY - Red Mountain Hike

We are at the "Everything is a first" phase.  On Saturday we climbed Red Mountain again, this time with a group of 11 other members of our branch.  This is our first JAS activity.  7 of the group were young adults and we couldn't be more pleased to get that many participating.  The first week we arrived here we met with Dayde and Valery, two wonderful young adults in the branch, who tried previously to get the group going.  They told us it was pretty much hopeless, because of various issues.  We told them we would give it our all, that we would have good food and lots of fun activities and hopefully we could get it going.  We have had 7 young adults at both of our activities and it was not the same 7 so we have lots of hope.

 

This is our group at the top.  The two men in the middle are brother Mendoza and brother Camargo our Branch President.  Our Missionaries Elder Cloward and Elder Anderson are at the top left.  

The Hike Begins

Luis Illescas giving us all a bit of a show

Valery Linares gave the spiritual message at the top.  She passed around the bible and everyone read parts of the creation, very appropriate, as we sat on top of the world.

 

 

We were worried about the sun but the big problem was the wind.  This beach is famous for its wind and wind surfing.  It was Easter weekend and the wind cooperated as hundreds were there taking advantage of the stiff breeze.

Wind Surfing looked very fun.

 A view of the volcano Teidi on our way up.

We had a picnic by the beach after.  I made chicken croissant sandwiches, carrot sticks, potato salad and rice crispy treats (with my recent find, marshmallows) It reminded me of windy Easter picnics, we used to have in Moab, when I was a kid.  We ate a bit of sand.

Our last windy photo.  Lots of pictures were taken that day.  It was great fun!  We look forward to many more good days together...and hopefully with an even bigger group.