The picture where you can see Ti on the left and her friend waited while his girl friend and I continued the hike all the way to the top of the landing....
Ok so sorry its been forever since I have updated my blog, for those of you who don't know, I started the Dental Hygiene program at Dixie State in August, and as you can probably guess, it takes up all my time, and then some!! 
Ti and I have been wanting to hike Angels Landing for a long time, and didn't want to do it in the dead heat of the summer, so we woke up Sat. and decided to go for a hike, we threw in some treats and water and were on our way!! The picture of the trail is about 1/3 of the way up I would say.... it was really funny because people would make it this far and decide they didn't really want to go the whole way so they would say "I made it about 1/2 way and turn around"....they had no idea what was ahead of them, but I guess if they were done with just walking up switch backs, they wouldn't have made the chain part so....
The picture of the bird is from the top of angels landing...its a California Condor and it was flying so close over head we could hear the wind between it's feathers and it is tagged with the #13. It was really pretty and fun to watch
This is a picture of us on the way up, I definately wore the wrong shirt, or at least I was easy to see because on the hike to the top, several people labeled me by my shrit "tooth girl"---Volunteer shirts, ya gotta love them!!! (And you could NEVER tell my major from my shirt, right??)
When we made it to the part where you begin to hold on to the chain, Ti decided she was not fit for the height and sheer cliffs on both sides. She decided she wanted to wait and I didn't really want to keep going and leave her there to wait, so we were going to turn around when we met this other couple from Germany, Allie and Ami (ah-mee). They were here in the US for 16 days to do some hiking and she wanted to go but her boyfriend was scared of heights, so Ami waited with Ti while Allie and I continued up the trail. We ended up hiking with a group of about 8 of us, one girl was from Australia and her boyfriend was from Michigan, the other couple was hiking from another point and this was their 15th mile (they had backpacked overnight) the third couple was from back east somewhere, (I was the only one from Utah in the group) and it was a good mixture of people and personalities! The sights were so pretty and I enjoyed being up there. I was a little sketchy on the way up at times when I realized I wasn't holding onto the chain, but I didn't feel like I needed it the whole time, I think it was more of a realization that I wasn't holding onto it when I probably should have been.... I would describe the hike to the top as walking up a bunch of rock stairs except with a chain right by your side and sheer cliffs on both sides.
The hike was gorgeous and it was about perfect temperature outside (we started out with hoodies and at 46 degrees but as you can tell from the picutures, before long we ditched the hoodies and were sweating before long)... I would recommend this hike for sure! :)
(Sorry once again this is kind of spacey---look at Ti's blog for a more organized set of probably different pictures lol) Sorry mine is so mixed up, but gotta get back to studying....
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