We spent Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at Megan's favorite campground near Flaming Gorge. I LOVED it! I should have split these photos into two blog posts, but oh well, it's just really long now. These first few photos are from Anders--him and Jubal went hiking together.
I love that they're such good friends!
Thursday we went boating at Flaming Gorge. Megan had her ski boat, and Leo and I rented a pontoon boat, so then everyone fit. The Crawthers (good friends of Megan and Jared) were camping with us, and I guess they usually have their ski boat there and another boat as well, but both were out of commission. The kids just took turns going on the ski boat to ski and ride tubes.
This was driving into our campground, the actual campground is down in a canyon.
Efraim is so adorable.
Since it was down in a canyon, it was actually fairly chilly.
Another wonder Efraim found.
A random guy from Vernal let us ohh and awww over his chuckwagon and even let us eat a bunch of food. It was practically dinner before dinner. It was really cool though.
Vernal Guy.
It was sooo delicious!
A mushroom the kids found.
So it was a bit too eventful this camping trip. This photo of Anders was taken just before him and two of the Crawthers took off for some before dinner dirt biking. Only, Anders's bike broke without the two other boys noticing, and then one of those boys' dirt bikes also broke, and they realized Anders was no where around, and then the last bike ran out of gas. No one had cell reception except briefly before the one Crawther's phone died from no battery charge. So they sent off one message kind of explaining where they were. We didn't have cell reception at our campsite either, so it was two hours after dinner and already dark, when Megan and Jared and the Crawthers went to try to go find them. They got their message and came back to camp to tell us they were heading out on the side by sides to try to get them. Leo and I stayed with all the other kids. Anyway, they ended up traveling practically to Vernal to the back side of the mountains to get in to where the boys were. And Megan and ? Crawther hiked up a mountain in the dark looking for them. They ran into Anders first luckily. He was curled up trying to sleep (freezing--it was in the 30s that night) in the middle of a trail. He had been trying to walk back to camp but he said it was so dark that he almost went into water without realizing it, so he stopped. The two Crawther boys had broken into a yurt about and were sleeping comfortably on some bunks there. They all didn't get home till about 5 AM. Anders told me straight-out that it was pretty terrifying being out there lost and alone in the dark. Poor kid.
This was the other unfortunate event. While going very slowly on the pontoon, the little boys were riding on the front and Efraim leaned over to try to touch the water and fell in. Leo cut the engine, and we were all kind of waiting for a second for Efraim to pop back up, but he didn't. So we were terrified he had hit the motor or something. (He had a life jacket on. I'm militant about life jackets.) Then Megan jumped in, and Danica's boyfriend and the oldest Crawther daughter's fiancee both jumped in after, each from a different part of the boat to look for him. Meanwhile, I was standing just scanning the water and saw him pop up by the motor and pointed him out to Megan and she came and got him and pulled him into the boat. He had knicked the back of his head and it was bloody. But he told me when he fell in, he did go under the boat but then he grabbed hold of something under there and just held on for a while. I'm so glad he did, because him hitting the motor even going at 5 mph is terrifying to think about. Jubal actually cried longer--almost an hour--and was more upset about the whole thing than Efraim. He thought Efraim had died. So sad!
Cliff jumping
Emeline came with us. She and Eli had flown out to Utah for something and got to hang out with us all. 😁
These rocks were so cool.
It was warm when the sun was shining (the water was cold!) but most of the afternoon the sun was behind clouds so they kids didn't want to swim much. This was earlier when the sun was out.
Do you see them?
Sebas Climbing
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