There were two religious, scatterbrained and young friends, one being male and one being female on an adventure with their church group working to build a church on a Navajo Indian Reservation in New Mexico. It was in July, the hottest part of the summer of 1997, when five church members flew into New Mexico to meet up with three other ones that drove all the way there from the East Coast. They labored for 9 days working hard in the scorching heat and only taking one day off to go into Arizona and visit ‘The Grand Canyon’.
It was the fourth day there and the two young friends decided to go up into the mountains and search for quartz rocks. The male friend of the bunch had his parents and two siblings along for the trip and they didn’t want to go into the mountains, but asked that the two young ones bring them back some rocks also.
Of course, four days into the trip and a crack under the cabin door left the church members a little wary of jumping into shoes, clothes or their beds without first shaking them or checking for scorpions. So, the female friend was in the lead walking up the drive canon riverbed and decided she would play a trick on the male, who was already worried about snakes and scorpions anyways. Over half way up the mountain and quite a few rocks later, the female screamed at the top of her lungs, “SCORPION!!!” The male turned in a little dance, trot, skip and jump and ran down the canon riverbed so fast that he left his rocks lay behind and didn’t stop the whole way down. The female laughed so hard and tried to get him to stop but he was not going to believe her now and he ran all the way to the cabin. She finished picking up rocks and headed back down and told the others in the group about what she had done. The mother to the young boy laughed so hard that she cried because she said she could just see his face and the little dance he did before he ran. Thankfully, no scorpions or snakes were actually seen on the trip but the memories and fun lasted a lifetime.