America's Birthday

Happy Birthday America!

This past week my family got to go to the cabin in Island Park! It is our favorite place to vacation; I’ve been going there since before I can even remember! This is the first time, I can remember, that we went over the 4^th of July and it has now become my favorite time to be there!

Before we headed up to the cabin we started the week off with a bang with the annual Rupert, fireworks! I went to a play with my neighbors and met my mom at our usual spot for the fireworks, got some infamous kettle corn and enjoyed our little town’s traditions!

Wednesday morning I headed off by myself to Rexburg to get Holli and Heidi who were ecstatic to join me in the journey to Island Park!

We arrived and just hung around because that is the best thing to do but we eventually ventured out for a moose drive which came up hopeless until we drove on the cabin road and were greeted by not 1 but 2 moose! It was a great start to our trip!

Thursday we went swimming and then a thunderstorm rolled through so we decided to go on another moose drive and were able to see 4 moose 2 moms and 2 babies! The babies we so cute! We could have watched them forever!

Everyone else came up that afternoon/night and we enjoyed another night of relaxing and hanging around the cabin!

Friday we decided to celebrate America’s birthday by floating down the Buffalo Rive just a couple miles from our cabin. We also saw a bull moose not far from the cabin just before the float trip.

Floating was quite the adventure! When we float the river at home we just use inner tubes from the tire store. Well this river was a lot more shallow and had a lot of rocks! We made it through the first part just fine and were willing to go on. As we went we thought it was better than the first part, but it eventually got way worse, and we were split up with the rest of the group. Erica, Holli and I trudged through the water and eventually decided to just get out and go find a phone because there was no way our tubes were going anywhere. We got my dad and he came to get us and the rest of the group said it never got better so we were smart to get out when we did.

We went into West Yellowstone to watch the fireworks and had a great rest of our night!

Saturday we decided to do a re-do float trip and went down Box canyon which was way more fun and exciting than the first day! We had a few rapids and the weather was perfect, it was a great way to end the trip! We had plenty of sun for a while and decided to call it a day!

This was one of the best trips we have been on! We relaxed and had a lot of fun! I can’t wait to go back up in a couple of weeks for a longer!