Cliff Jumping, among other fun things with the Elams!!

So yesterday Jack and I (along with Kimi, Jeremy and a bunch of youth from the church) decided we'd drive on up to Abiquiu, NM to do some fun cliff jumping into Abiquiu Lake. We had a blast! The weather was perfect, nice and warm and the water felt amazing...once you finally got the nerve to jump in! We are guessing the jump was about 30 feet being that the water levels were down about 10 feet from previous years but the lake was still ridiculously deep and the conditions were perfect...nice ledges with absolutely no rocks beneath them, extremely deep water all the way up to the rock face, very clear water so you could see quite a ways down into the water, etc. The initial jump was definitely the scariest...standing on the ledge was more nerve wracking than we thought it would be but jumping was so worth it. After a few jumps we all decided to swim across to the other side of the small part of the lake we were on and lounge around then we swam back, had some lunch and then jumped a few more times. Then it was off back to Santa Fe with some sore necks and fun stories...unfortunately, Jack didn't master the pencil jump and hit his bum twice pretty good and ended up with a bruised tail bone but a nice u-shaped pillow helped with that. Then we had some yummy pizza and a rousing game of Spades and Dice with Kimi and Jeremy and then hit the hay. Fun times. :)

Kimi taking the plunge!!

off I leapt!

Kimi and I decided to jump together...and then both of our ears hurt...hmmm

Jack had a blast throwing frisbee and getting guys to jump off the ledge for the disc!

Jack's attempt to go in pencil straight to save the bum.

Colin was ready to leap for Jack's disc

Ohhh so close!!! :)

I decided to try a back flip off...notice the pointed toes (debs) hahahah

the old farts of the group :) we had a blast!!

I almost threw her off....

View of part of the pretty lake :)

The leaping off place down at the bottom. It was so much fun!!! Definitely going back.

The day before cliff jumping we had fun playing tennis...and were all sore the next day :)

Whole group. What fun friends.

Our rousing dice game after our spades game.