Memorial Weekend...Island Park Cabin

This is becoming a fun tradition going up to our neighbor's cabin over Memorial weekend. We have fun whenever we go up there and it is so pretty! We expected it to be pretty rainy, but it ended up not being too bad. It sprinkled on and off and rained hard at night, but didn't really rain out any of our plans.

We left after Ashton's county program on Friday and got up there that night. The driving part is never the most fun for us, but we survived.

We got there and got a fire going...it was chilly!

And the boys got out their legos that they brought and played for awhile before bed...

The next day we got up and got ready and went on a fun hike. Ashton was excited to bring his metal detector along :) 

 Then we went over to fish pond and fished for awhile, and the boys

found stuff with the metal detector.

I love these pictures :)

Playing around before bed that night... 

Sunday we got up and got ready and drove into Yellowstone for the day.

On the way during a game of license plate tag, Ashton accidentally knocked out yet another one of Gunnar's teeth! :/

We went the opposite way of Old Faithful this time and went on a hike that morning...After we'd been walking a few minutes we spotted some bears...a long way away, but watched them in the binoculars for awhile.

 We ran into an older couple from Belgium and asked them to take a picture...

Everytime we would go anywhere I would walk the wrong direction so Lars told me I could get lost in a phone booth...haha, so I couldn't resist when there was a phone booth in Mammoth...

 Elk in Mammoth...

There are always plenty of buffalo!

Their favorite place we stopped...they hiked all around these huge rocks.

 Grand Canyon of Yellowstone...

 And finally getting lottery tickets on our way back to the cabin...

We stopped off at a pizza place in West Yellowstone...everyone else who'd been in Yellowstone for the day wanted to eat there too apparently, so it took a long time, but it was really good...

Hot chocolate back at the cabin, made by Ashton...

Lars got up and went fishing on Monday and I cleaned up most of the cabin and got stuff packed up and then we headed home!