Memorial Day Weekend

We celebrated Memorial day weekend right this year and packed in as much as we could. We took off Thursday night and drove down to Coal Mine lakes Road where we had a public use cabin reseverd for two nights. We could not have ordered nicer weather and the cabin was in a beautiful spot. Wyatt loves to go fishing so as soon as we got to the cabin we geared up and headed out on the lake.

 We only caught a couple small Char the first night but it was a great evening on the lake. It was midnight by the time we got in had some dinner and got the boys in bed. I have not been up that late in a long time but it was nice to enjoy the sunset (yes, this was taken at midnight!). The low clouds were actually smoke from a forest fire burning in the distance. 

 This is the view from the front porch of the cabin first thing on Friday morning- Spectacular!!

First words out of Wyatt's mouth in the morning were "Can we go fishing now?"

 After fishing and breakafast we headed up to the old coal mine to do some exploring.

We went for a nice long hike up into the tundra above the mine.

View from the top of the hill we climbed.

Wyat was a great little hiker, I was surprised at how far we made it. Sam didn't hold up quite so well. He fell asleep up on Papa's shoulders.  I wish I could sleep like that.

Stopped to cool off by the creek.

Got a nice look at a herd of Caribou.

I rode my bike back down to our cabin, the boys took the 4-wheeler.

And of course as soon as we got back to the cabin we had to go fishing!

We did end up catching a couple keepers for dinner but most of the fish were pretty small.

On Saturday we headed back home to catch Friendly Frontier Days here in Delta. Two of our good friends got nominated to kiss a pig. Couldn't miss that! Plus there were hay rides, straw bale mazes, homemade ice cream and baby yaks to pet.

Here is Eileen, she opted to sit on the pig before smooching it.

She did a fine job and came out of the pen in pretty good shape.

Next up is Chuck, here he is practicing his pucker.

Now Chuck took a slightly different appraoch, he went for the full body slide tackle.

 He did finally land a smooch on the pig but came out of the pen in much worse shape than Eileen did.

The rest of the weekend we spent working in the garden and visiting with our good friends Dave and Shiway who came down for a quick float trip on the Clearwater. I wish every weekend could be just like this one was.