Another fun get away for the Becksteads. We went camping for a week in Island Park. We camped right on Island Park Reservoir. We had such a great time camping, had delicious food, lots of good company, were very bear aware and so much fun. Can't wait til next year.
Boating on the the reservoir was so much fun. The kids tubed, Mike wake boarded and I got up water skiing. The water was glass all day long and it sure was pretty sweet.
We took off one day to Yellowstone, there were so many people there. We saw this buffalo, an elk and another buffalo, pretty exciting. But the kids have never been to the hot pots or old faithful, so we did it.
Nice pose, Bode.
Karissa, Terri, Zayne and Saige Fredrickson, so enjoying a good time waiting for old faithful to erupt.
After deciding to bail on Yellowstone Park, we headed to Quake Lake, it was pretty neat to see. There was an Earthquake there in the 1950's and the whole side of the mountain slid down and damned the water which created Quake Lake. We watched the video at the visitor center, its amazing the force the earthquake had.
Then we found another Lake to check out it was called Wade Lake, it was absolutely gorgeous. We decided to stop and try out the water. It was way to tempting for my kids to not get wet, but since we didn't have swimsuits, they stripped down and swam for hours. Very refreshing and made for good naps on our way back to camp.
We had just loaded up to head home and was about a mile away from our camp. I was telling Rylie to look out through the pine trees and look at all the trees. I looked over shoulder to see if she was looking when there was a black bear out Mike's window. It was loping into the trees. I about gave Mike a heart attack, I was freaking out. I couldn't believe I actually saw one in real life.
