When we got there, we unloaded all of our food and settled in. We walked around the cabin and down to the river and just explored. My mom ran into a cow moose and her calf right next to the cabin, so we all piled into the cars and grabbed our cameras to try to catch a glimpse. After dinner, we built a fire and cooked S'mores. Mmm...What is it about blasted camping that brings out the pop drinking in me? Yuck...I always feel disgusting after, but I can't stop myself. Good thing I pretty much stick to Country Time Strawberry Lemonade and Peach Fresca--no caffeine for me at least!!
Friday morning I got up EARLY to cook breakfast for the boys before they took the drift boat out for a fishing trip. While they were gone, we stuck around the cabin and cooked hot dogs and played with the kids. Tyra and I tried to convince my mom and Kelsey to play a game with us that we made up, but that all ended with my mom's impersonation of an Indian gas station attendant ("Ya ta hay ya ta hay, I want to fill your car today"). When they got home, the girls got showered up and headed into West Yellowstone for the play "Guys and Dolls"--or so we thought...On our way there, we saw a black bear. It was enormous and ran across the road in front of our car. And I mean R A N. I didn't think it was possible for something so big to be so fast! When we got settled into our seats, we noticed that the backdrop for the opening scene said Secret Garden on it. Kelsey and I started laughing thinking that they were messing with us. Nope. Turns out that we weren't going to get to see Guys and Dolls but instead the Secret Garden. I think it caught us all off guard so it took us awhile to get into the whole Garden thing, but we ended up enjoying ourselves.
Saturday we loaded up and took off for a drive to Mesa Falls. It is beautiful there. The picture that I have in an earlier blog of my mom and I was actually taken there so we took another one--30 YEARS LATER. Crazy how time flies...We also drove over to Big Bear--which used to be a ski resort when my parents were teenagers and then stopped along the river so the kids could feed the fish. And by kids I mean Brandon and Brock. Then we headed back to Island Park and over to Henry's Lake. We took the drift boat and took turns going out on the lake. We skipped rocks and ate sunflower seeds and watched Mason fish and Kade throw rocks. Too bad the only thing that anyone caught with their fishing pole was sea weed.
We went back to the cabin to load up on mosquito repellent and decided to hit the fireworks along the river that the local bar owners sponsor. This had to have been the strangest fireworks show ever...First it was a bunch of duds and then all of a sudden there was a huge fireball that blew up on the ground. We were all scared and thought that for sure the ambulance was going to come ripping in there to rescue someone with 3rd degree burns. But no...the show just kept going. The fireworks alternated from dinky to finale style and then back to fireball and just kept repeating that cycle. Over and over and over again. My dad informed us that his RLS was starting to flare up from sitting in the truck because he didn't want to get out and get eaten alive by mosquitoes. His RLS quickly turned into RAS which I believe was actually LAS. After that, we couldn't stop laughing. We kept making jokes about the bar owner's over there lighting off fireworks with their cigarettes hanging from their mouths and how these fireworks were sponsored by Osama bin Laden. Eventually, even the kids were ready to call it quits. They finally said that they liked fireworks, but they were ready to go home because they were tired.
Sunday we woke up and cleaned the cabin from top to bottom. Tyra and Brock had to take off early because he just got put in the Bishopric and had to be home for meetings. Once we got everything loaded we followed Kelsey and Brandon into Rexburg and then back to Preston. I had to go back to Ogden to pick up stuff for my camp at Minico High School so I loaded up my stuff and headed South. It worked out well because I got to dump off all of my dirty clothes and fit in some Will time too...
What a fun weekend with my family though. I love being around them. I love being Missy Mommy to my Kaders and I love being able to be around people who want what is best for me--especially in a place as fun as Island Park. We've got to make this a tradition now!
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