Sunday, August 17, 2008

Island Park

We just got back from our fun trip to Island Park. Every year my family does a family reunion/trip. We all take our turns planning. This year was my brother Todd's turn. His in-laws have a cabin in Island Park and let all stay there. Well some stayed in the cabin and some of us brought up our tents and trailers. We drove up Sunday Aug. 10th and stayed until Thursday. Monday we drove to Virgina City which is just over a hour away. It is a ghost town.
Just in case you didn't know.

Here we are eating lunch at a rest stop on our way to Virgina City.


Here we are roaming the streets of Virgina City.


We had to have ice cream at Bob's place.

There was a candy store there, it had rows and rows of candy. Jakob was in Heaven.

We thought it would be fun to do an old fashion picture while we were in the ghost town. Well the girl who took our picture didn't want to listen to anyone in the family and took this lovely shot. Half if the shade and half in the sun. This one has even been touched up by Steve.

Me and my Sara Boo.

Jakob and Thomas


Tuesday we just hug around the cabin for most of the day. We had a fun time tie dying t-shirts.

Getting the shirts ready to be died.
The finished product. I think the turned out pretty cute.

Everyone eating dinner.

At the end of the day Ryan just needed to cuddle up with a good book! I think he takes after his mom!
Wednesday we went to Yellowstone.

This was the first stop of the day at the hot pots. There was a tree that had fallen over and made for a cute back drop for a picture.

Good ol' Old Faithful


We stopped at the west thumb and it was so cold we had to wrap the kids in a blanket, since we didn't think to bring jackets. This was the closet shot we got of the wild life.

Here's Jakob and Sara sporting their Yellowstone souvenirs at the Upper Falls.

We stopped for dinner at Canyon Village that night. If you look close at my plate of food you will notice that there is an awful lot there. That is the child's portion. Steve said he saw a man with the regular size and it was twice as big as mine. It was good and very filling. Lovely picture of me don't you think! =) This was pretty much the last stop for the day. Thursday morning we just got up and cleaned up camp and headed home. It was a fun trip and great to be with my family!!! Thanks Kellie and Todd for all the time planning and the use of your parents cabin.

8 comments:

The Grant Family said...

Sounds like you had a fun trip. As I was looking at the tree I had deja-vu and realized that it was the same tree that a friend of mine took when they went to Yellowstone too. Here's her link. http://bryanandmolly.blogspot.com/2008/08/impromptu-vacation.html
Too funny.

Julie said...

I'm glad you all had fun. Too bad about the old fashioned photo. What was the girl thinking? I did love the old tree photo, though.

Natalie said...

That was fun to see all your vacation pictures. I like your idea of rotating planning your family gathering/reunion. I may have to suggest that to my family. (although that might be too much structure for a few of my siblings LOL) Those tie-dye shirts look super cool. You'll have to show me how you do them. Glad you had a fun trip!!!

Thiago & Teri said...

Love it...looks like you guys had so much fun. I didn't realize that Virgina city was a ghost town, interesting..I would have liked to have seen that. Still laughing at the idiot photographer, honestly. You however look darling.

Anonymous said...

I think you should dress real fancy-like more often. You look super in that blue dress. Glad you had fun!!
Brandy

Jeni said...

We were at a family reunion at the same time you guys were! I just haven't gotten around to posting about it.
Your looks like so much fun! I LOVE the idea for the old fashioned photos! I'm going to make my family copy you next year!

John, Tish and Peyton Maughan said...

Cute pictures! That was fun! We're looking forward to next year's reunion.

Holls said...

way fun, we also just went to yellowstone! I loved it! My email address is hollydoll224@aol.com so email me and give me yours so I can send you an invite.