Camping with the Hansens

All summer we have been planning a little vacation with the Hansens and finally last weekend we got to go.  We loaded up and picked Dustin up in Arco Thursday night (after he waited for us for an hour!) and headed to the Salmon River.  When we got there we unloaded and got swim suits on and headed up Slate Creek to the hot spring.  We put on our head lamps and carefully walked the trail to the tub.  Besides the floaty algae it was perfect. :)

 

We got on ATVs to head to Bayhorse on Friday and got about 4 miles away when some fire men stopped us on the trail and turned us around.  They were dipping in Bayhorse to put out a 20 acre fire.  So we parked and watched their helicopters for a while.

 

We drove back to camp, had our picnic and then loaded back up to go shoot some guns.  I was a real professional clay pigeon thrower (ha!).  Mostly Farrah and I watched these boys having a ball shooting their guns.

 

Dustin was doing a John Wayne shooting here and destroyed the clay pigeon.

 

The next day we rode the ATVs up Railroad Ridge about 11 miles.  It's a fun ride and at the top you overlook Dustin's favorite lake - Crater Lake.  We stopped by a stream for a photo shoot.

 

 

 

When we got to the top we layed around on the rocks and looked down at the lake.   It was nice to relax and not worry about kids falling and spend time with our special friend.

 

We went to Jimmy Smith Lake after Railroad Ridge and within a few minutes saw a Rattlesnake and that was the end of it for me.  I ran up the hill and sat on the 4 wheeler waiting for Dustin to finish fishing.  That stupid rattle sound was aweful!!

 

It started to rain so we loaded up and went back to the trailer for a nap.  (I think we must be getting old).  We slept about an hour and then got back together to watch a movie in the trailer until the rain cleared up.  The sky was beautiful after the rain!

 

We took them up Yankee Fork to show them the Dredge and the kids fishing pond.  It was still jumping with fish and sadly we didn't bring any fishing gear except Mike remembered he had some hooks in the back seat so we scrounged some fishing line off the bushes, tied it to a stick and a hook and wrapped some dried apricots on it.  Boy howdy those fish went crazy!  Every time we dipped in the water we had fish fighting to grab that apricot smothered hook.

 

I told the boys I was glad to know we could survive in the outdoors with a kiddy pond close by. ;)  We had a lot of good laughs.

 

Such a fun little outing!  We missed our kids terribly, but had a good couple days away.  Dustin says he likes spending time with his wife instead of the kids mom which I understand.  Glad we could do a getaway before life changes.