We Have Such A Wonderful World

I just had two of the happiest days I've had in a while. Although Thursday's bizarre and terrible weather was not an auspicious start to the pre-weekend excursion I went on, everything turned out fabulously. I don't want to bore you with all the details, but midday I set off with my sister, her bf, and her roommate for the wilderness via Wyoming, meeting up with a few more friends (and a lovely Chesapeake Bay Retriever [I read dog encyclopedias as a child and guessed that breed correctly. I guess it comes in handy-ish?]) on the way, our destination a Uintah mountain trailhead. We then proceeded on our two hour cross country ski trip by moonlight(and headlamplight) up to the yurt. While skiing along (aka hiking with skis, at least going this direction on the trail) I was just overcome with a love for this world. I think I've blogged about this before, how I forget about what happens to me when I really get out into nature (which unfortunately doesn't happen a lot), how I really feel that closest to God (aside from in the temple and such) and myself and the world when I'm out in the wonders of Creation. I'm a pretty happy person, when I'm not being dumb, but it's more rare that I feel actual pure joy, and I felt it out in the mountains last night. And then we came to a sight something like this: 

Yurt.

Which was just wonderful. I was surrounded by people who are good and do great things like get awesome educations and travel the world and have big dogs that they take hiking a lot and talk about going to free Cold War Kids concerts coming up in Park City and they seem to be everything that I want to be and so maybe I can be just like them someday. But in my own way. The trip probably didn't mean as much to any of them as it did to me, (except maybe Lola the dog, she had a really good time) but it was exactly what I needed to remind myself of the world out there. 

And I only fell once really coming down the baby downhill trail in the morning. I kind of wonder how I survived skiing that one other time, because it's kind of terrifying. 

The world is the best.