Bear Lake for Fall Break- hey that rhymes!

BEAR LAKE
We were so anxious to get up there, we left Wednesday NIGHT after mutual, after cleaning up the house, I think we left around 9:00.  Which is pretty weird for us.  Normally we would just wait.  But really- I'm so glad we didn't!  It was one more morning that we got to sleep in, one more day that we had to vacation.  We didn't get up to the lake house until midnight, but we all settled in and went right to sleep.  In the morning we slowly got ready for the day.  We headed down to swim or so we thought and ended up on kind of a wild goose chase, following the family around Idaho looking for something to see.  The Oregon Trail museum was closed, so it was on to Soda Springs to see the geyser, which was actually really cool and very random.  Only problem was we hadn't been planning on ANY of it, so we struggled to really enjoy the day.  The kids just wanted to swim.  Luckily, and against Ruth's will, we ended up swimming that evening.  I wish Ruth would have been there with us, but I understand why she wasn't.  Kind of a bummer, I'm going to have to look into a new place to swim while we're up there.

Friday, Nate, Brad and Noah got up early to go fishing in the FREEZING cold.  The rest of us slept in and played games, watched tv... bummed around... my favorite thing to do.  It was a nice relaxing morning.  Unfortunately, when Nate got back, his neck had taken a turn for the worse.  He was in excruciating pain and could hardly move.  I felt so bad!  He didn't want to ruin the fun for anyone though, so he just carried on as usual.  We went and got shakes on our way over to Ruth's to play with the cousins and then everyone headed up to Coopers together.  After Coopers we went back to Ruth's to watch the Jazz game.  It was such a late game, we thought we weren't going to be able to watch the whole thing, but Grandpa and Dawn informed us that they were up at the house with the game on. So we let Grandma go to bed and went to the lake house for the last half of the game.  That was a really sad game!  We had been ahead the ENTIRE game!  Only to lose our lead in the last five minutes.  Then of course, we ran the clock out too much, or not enough, and lost by ONE POINT!!  So sad.  Everyone was bummed.  Then we went to bed.

these two were buds for a lot of the trip- made me smile

Saturday we had bacon for breakfast, which is always a good thing.  I made eggs for the adults :).  We got all ready for the day and went and had fh'zookies with Grandpa Hatch, Dawn, Grandma Ruthie, Aunt Jen, and the Eagle Mountain Mayneses before they all headed back home.  I splurged and had some of the fh'zookie and while it was delicious, I was slightly bummed that it tasted a little burnt.  Oh well, it was worth it :).  Kinda.  We went back up to grandpa's, watched Ernest Goes to Jail (an ol' family favorite from my childhood), then went back down to the lake for some rock skipping.  That was a LOT of fun!  Probably my favorite part of the trip.  It was nice and relaxing, everyone was happy, I was taking pictures... it was great!

We headed back when we were ready and didn't have to rush home for a change.  We stopped at Costa Vida in Brigham City and got home around 8:00.  It was fun that the older three realized there was a dance that night, so they showered and I cut Brad's hair, and they headed out to that- his first dance!!  The rest of us got ready for Sunday.  Haircuts for Noah and Jackie too.  It was a nice evening.  I loved that we weren't rushed all day.  So nice!!  Fun trip.  10-17-18--10-20-18