Monday morning we piled back into the van and headed to Wyoming. It really must be a good age for the kids because they have done so well in the car...knock on wood. Mostly movies but we break it up with some toys, coloring, reading, and snacks.
Wind River Range-Just outside of Lander.
One of John's favorite places.
Never seen it as green as it is this year.
Polly Pockets-great Ice Breaker!
We happily arrived in Lander and while we were catching up with Jillyn and her Mom Linda it started to rain-big Huge Raindrops. It was a pretty impressive storm. John made the comment that he'd never seen it rain in Lander before-The drought must be OVER!
The kids had a ball playing in the storm!
Tuesday: Sinks Canyon-lunch, park & Nature Hike
Future Rock Climbers
At the Trail Head kids picked them up some beautiful bouquets.
Jillyn & Baby Kate
The hike plum tuckered Tate out-he finished it the way we'd all like too, asleep and being carrying.
Tuckered Ruby & Josie right out!
After Dinner we headed out and saw some TeePee's and some original houses and building from early settlers of Lander. For sure want to go when they are open next time. Very intriguing.
Next we headed to the Johnstone's to have a ride on the horses. George was nice enough to saddle a few horses (for us and their current guests-grandson & friends). The kids had been looking forward to this pry since we left a couple of years ago. It's one of the highlights of their trip to Lander.
We weren't too sure we'd get Tate on a horse, he seems to love them from a distance but always hesitant to get anywhere near one.
Little did we know he knew which horse he wanted to ride, and it wasn't the cute little brown horse Mr. Friendly. He had pointed at Midnight earlier a rather large grey and white speckled horse but he's always pointing at horses so I hadn't paid much attention. He didn't even hesitate when I passed him to his Dad. He was in 7th Heaven!
As the horse riding wound down a storm blew in, the wind was howling and all plans for a bonfire were put aside. Linda, Jillyn's Mom doesn't get discouraged we still made smores by a Natural Gas fire from the stove top. :)
The time went all too quickly and we wished we could've stayed a few more days-but Jackson Hole was calling and so off we went.
1 comment:
That looks amazing. One of my favorite parts of vacation is how it wears the children out and they end up sleeping in random places. What great friends to have!
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