Idaho Vacation 2008 - Week Two

Week two started on Sunday July 27th (at least in my blog it does). I went hiking on the traditional Cote boys hiking trip with my dad and my brother. We usually make the hike every year. I forgot my camera (I know...), so I don't have any pictures, but we had fun as always.

While we were off hiking, Lynnell and her family went to Coeur D' Alene to go to Triple Play (a bowling-swimming-climbing-eating-playing-mini-golfing type facility). They went to go swimming. Here's a picture of Lynnell and Izzie comming out of one of the slides.


Here's Izzie's reaction after the midget slide.


I'm pretty sure she wanted to go down a much much much bigger slide.

Here's all of the girls hanging out playing.


And Nell and Izzie at the end of the day.


Monday morning we got up early and headed way up the river to my aunts river place because Alan & Mom were staying up there on vacation, and we wanted to spend a few days with them. Here's Nell and Izzie hanging out.


Here's Grandpa Alan and Izzie hanging out down by the river watching the other kids and dogs playing in the river.


My mom didn't believe me that Izzie could say supercalifragilisticexpialidotious, so when Izzie actually said it she was very surprised.*


Here's a very tired Izzie resting her head on mine as we walked around in the water.


When early afternoon hit it was time to load up and go for a float. Here's Grannie, Grandpa Alan & Skyler loaded up and ready to brave the open waters of the North Fork.


While everyone went on a float, Izzie and I stayed behind so that she could nap. Where do you put a baby when it's nap time and you don't have anywhere else to put her? A Kokanee raft of course.


We hung out, played and ate dinner for the rest of the day. On Tuesday we got up and did it all over again. Here's a picture of all the ladies. Counting my grandma (bottom right), there's four generations (Izzie represents the 4th) in this picture.


Here's Nell and Izzie eating some cantaloupe for lunch.


Here's Izzie and I with her great grandparents just before they packed up to go home.


We stayed up the river through dinner visiting and enjoying our time with family. Here's a picture of Izzie zonked out on the way back to my dad's house.


Wednesday we hung out at my dad's house all day. Here's Sydnie with gum all over her face.


Izzie hanging out in the house.


Here's my sister and I going for a bike ride in the evening.


Thursday the 31st we hung out with Lynnell's family because Joe, Shasta and the kids were leaving Friday to go back home. Lynnell and Shasta decided that we should all go huckleberry picking, so we loaded up and headed to their favorite spot on top of a mountain. Here's me and Izzie picking berries.


Here's me enjoying myself. Man I love picking tiny berries one at a time!


Here's Shasta with the kids. We discovered that the bed of the truck was an excellent cage to keep them from wondering off and getting eaten by a bear.


After we were done picking berries we went back to Chuck & Shirley's for lunch and some fun. Here's Izzie and I relaxing on the swing in the front yard.


Nell got the wild idea that everyone should have a water fight. Not a bad idea since the temperature was in the mid 90's. So, they filled up a bunch of water balloons and the war commenced.



After everyone dried out and ate dinner, we headed back to my dad's house (that's where we stayed the whole time if you haven't caught on yet). When we got there my dad had his squirrel out playing with it, and they showed us their new trick. The squirrel jumps on command to my dad.



Friday we hung out at my dads house again. Here's Izzie and her aunts playing, reading and coloring in the yard.


Then we decided to have a water fight with my sisters. We filled over 100 water balloons, scattered them throughout the yard in buckets and let the chaos begin. here's Nell trying to drill me on the run as Izzie watches on wondering why everyone is runnign from the squishy red things.


Just a quick side note: I drilled Nell in the side of the head while she was in a full run from the other side of the yard. I'm talking Hail Mary style throw. When it hit her she stumbled a little bit, but that was it. She kept on running for more balloons. My dad and I almost died of laughter. I'm pretty sure I couldn't do that again with a hundred tries. Good stuff.

Here's Izzie and Grandpa Joe hanging out on the couch Friday night.


Saturday we got up packed all of our stuff and headed back to Billings. That was the end of our vacation, and we needed to get home to recuperate from all of the fun.

*Izzie can't really say supercalifragilisticexpialidotious. It was just the only clever thing I could think to say for that picture, and it wasn't even that clever.