Tuesday, September 8, 2009

The Journey of Labor Day

Labor Day made quite a journey. It didn't get off to a very good start but thankfully redeemed itself by the end of the day. Erik came home from working and the garage door completely caved in. I shouldn't have been surprised because it seems like everything in our house is breaking.
A few hours later, we left the three dogs (we're dog sitting Baylee and Zoey)...
...and went on a quick hike up to Donut Falls. It was an easy, 20 minute hike up to the falls despite me carrying my giant SLR camera and Erik lugging the big lens and tripod so we could get some great water pictures. There were atleast 40 people up at the falls so I wasn't able to get any wide shots but I did manage to take some shots of the smaller areas.
As we hiked back down to our car, we saw a moose! We got about 20 yards away from it and watched it eat for a few minutes. I tried to take a good picture, but it kept moving and they came out really blurry. You get the idea though.
After our hike, we drove up to Erik's aunt and uncle's cabin for dinner. Uncle Russell had created a zipline between the trees which entertained us for a while.
We had a wonderful dinner, fun on the zipline and ended by gorging ourselves with s'mores.
The night wasn't over yet though! We drove home and finished up our night hanging out with friends in our townhouse complex. I'm sure glad Labor Day ended better than it started.

6 comments:

Vic and Jan said...

What a busy day!! I thought for sure that you were going to say that when you got home the dogs had totally destroyed something. What a relief! We're glad you had a great day. (I can't wait to do some hiking when we get home.)

Bridget said...

love your cute smore picture. you are too good looking! where is that hike. i want to do it.

Taylor family said...

I was thinking the same thing as mom:) What a fun day. I wish mine was that fun. I'll just live vicariously(sp?) through you:)

Anna-Lisa said...

Sounds like a fun Labor day.....despite the garage thing! Your pictures look great. We went out to Great Basin and Pat got some cool water pictures too!

The McBrides said...

Sounds like you had a great day! I have never hiked donut falls- we should all go together sometime!

Celeste said...

That was so crazy to see your garage door like that! I'm just so glad it didn't fall and take out our cars!