We decided we wanted to take another little trip to Colter Bay, so we set aside 5 days and invited anyone who wanted to join us.
Our little family spent the first night at Allred Flats. The girls look so sweet and innocent here, but the truth is, Dustin and I were both ready to feed them to the bears.
We then spent a few nights at Colter Bay. The scenery is always breathtaking. My Parents, Grandma Bette and the Shockey's met us there. It was so much fun to have a group there with us. We really miss camping with family, especially at Colter Bay. So many of our childhood vacations were to this very spot. The water was nice, we rode bikes all over the place, my parents treated us to a night at Bar J Wranglers where London danced her little legs off, the kids had so much fun playing with their cousins. Amanda watched Brinley one night so Dustin and I could do a little mountain biking trail. We took Lunnie with us, it was so fun. We miss mountain biking.
We sent poor Grandma home with a black eye. It was kind of hard to come home from this trip. There was a sad realization that we may never be able to be here as a family again. However, these memories will always mean so much to me. This place is magical. Wait, I take back what I said, it's not that we will never be here as a family, but that our family will be different. I hope to stay here with my grandchildren and great grandchildren someday, to enjoy these very same surroundings with a different and wiser perspective.
Not to far from home we had some car trouble. Luckily the Shockey's were behind us and came to our rescue. They took the girls and our trailer home while we waited for Mike the tow man. As soon as they pulled away with our girls it was silent. We sat there waiting in the heat, dying of thirst and Dustin breaks the silence with, "Wow, this kind of feels like a date." I joked that it was probably going to be and expensive date... $5000 car repair! WOW, that was defiantly the most expensive date we have ever been on!
