Visit to Idaho Falls

This last weekend was really great. Travis and I took work off and headed to Idaho Falls for the weekend. We arrived Thursday night and it was really fun just to see everyone and catch them up on our trip to New Jersey. When Travis and I were in NYC we picked up T-shirts for Jess and Stu. Jess was really excited about the shirt, as for stu... not so much. But after some coaxing we were finally able to take a group picture.Early Friday morning we saddled up the horses and headed for Bear Creek. Me, Travis, Stu, my mom and dad all enjoyed a nice ride to White Springs Canyon and back to the trailhead where my Dad had parked our trailer. That night we enjoyed hot dogs and played a few games before bed.


The next day Me, Travis, my Dad and Jess (she came up friday night after work and my mom and stu had to leave for stu's football game) went on another ride. This time we headed up current creek towards the upper hunting camp. Once we were on the ridge my dad decided to loop back around by going down Mongolian (not official name, just what my dad calls it). Well, we started down the canyon and the longer we rode the more apparent it became that the trail was no where to be found, and indeed we were a bit lost. For the most part it was really fun, we came across a tree that a bear used to mark its territory by scratching up and high as he could. It was also a drizzly day so we were shelter under the trees and just enjoyed the cool weather and delightful smell of pine trees. However, the ride was some very scary spots where i thought one of the horses was going to break its leg or step in a hole covered by bushes. But in the end as luck would have it we somehow managed to come back on top and find the normal trail (but not the trail my dad was looking for, it was the one we rode in on). And from there it was smooth sailing. (the longer we rode the bigger the hole in her crotch grew)

On Sunday we woke up, went to church and then just had a nice relaxing afternoon with the family. Jake and Katie came over for dinner and made us a delicious Russian version of ravioli. We spent the night and then woke up and drove back to provo just in time to make it to work. We had a great time and can't wait to go back for another ride!