Day 3- Trek- July 2014

The next morning, we had Captains Joe Graham and Merrill George eat with us.  They are a lot of fun to talk to and just are so down to earth.  We had some super yummy breakfast burritos!  We also enjoyed the sounds of Barbara Johnston playing her violin.  She is an amazing violinist!  It definitely added to the authentic pioneer experience!  I loved it!  

1-4) our breakfast, 5) our family talking, 6-8) Riana's family, 9) Nathanael's family, 10) Kaatlin's family, 11) Savannah, 12) Naomi and Pa M, 13) Violinist Sis J, 14) refilled water jugs Franky and Daniel

The afternoon was filled with games and activities.  I’m pretty sure everyone’s favorite activity was the hair washing station.  Our family got to go first!  It was a wonderful, refreshing surprise!  Afterwards, there was a lot of hairbraiding going on.  I even braided my son, Eli’s hair.  LOL!  There was also a station to shoot black power rifles.  I hit it right in the center of the target!  J  I was also pretty amazing at shooting/spitting cherry seeds with my tongue, well, once Eli showed me how anyway.  After that, I hit the far bucket every time!  I think I had the record!  We made whistles out of straws, washed clothes, threw fake cow”pies”, and many more fun games.  One game was stilt walking… our family laughed our heads off when Eli accidently broke one of the pairs of stilts though.  Eli felt so bad but it totally wasn’t even his fault.  One game, I think it was called ladders or something, with a string with balls on each end.  Grant and a girl, Meilani, who used to be on his soccer team, were super good and battled against each other.  Honestly, I can’t even remember who won.  And speaking of winning, one game that our family was awesome at, well, everyone except me!  I was terrible!!  Was the tomahawk throwing contest.  A lot of our family was hitting the bullseye.  I couldn’t even get one to stick… LOL!  We all kept going back again and again and again… and we won the watermelons!!!  WAHOO!!  It was so awesome!  And totally lifted their spirits to win.  At one point when we were sitting around, the boys were singing, “If you like it than you should’ve put a ring on it…”  We were laughing so hard!  It was hilarious!

 

 














1) Cassie washing Quintin’s hair, 2) Ma washing Leena’s hair, 3) Leena washing Ma’s hair, 4) Quintin washing Cassie’s hair, 5) Elizabeth washing Celeste’s hair, 6-7) Michelle shooting and proud husband Jared watching, 8) cool pic of girl with whistle (about 3/4 of all of these pictures were taken by Dave Wolf and I took most of the others.) 9) Ma washing Pa's hair, 10) Ben, Franky, Daniel washing clothes, 11) Riana shooting, 12) kid with kilt, 13) Nathanael throwing tomahawk, 14) Kaatlin shooting, 15-16) Riana and friends, 17) Eli spit cherry pits, 18) Ma and Eli cherry spittin champs

1) making whistles, 2) with whistles, 3) Celeste making jewelry, 4-5) Ma shooting, 6) Quintin's tug of war injury-- taking one for the team-- we won!, 7) Elizabeth shooting, 8) Jaycie washing Savannah's hair, 9) Jared H shooting, 10) Michelle and Brooke, 11) Riana brushing Brooke's hair, 12) Brooke braiding Riana's hair, 12) Cow-pie toss

1-2) Savannah throwing tomahawk, 3) Tomahawk bulls-eye, 4) Quintin, 5) Leena, 6) Ben, 7) Ma, 8) Pa, 9) Ma and Pa, 10) Alex M and Logan, 11-12) Our family playing games

1) Brooke and Riana, 2-3) Eli breaks stilts, 4) "If you like it then you should’ve put a ring on it!" 5) Champions of ladder ball- Meilani vs Pa, 6) Eli’s French braid by Ma, 7) Logan, Brooke, Riana, 8-9) Savannah Jr baby funeral

TO BE CONTINUED...