A little getaway....

After my little ranting post about how I needed to get out of town we decided to just do it. We left on the 5th at a little after 6am and went up to the Sawtooths... of course... where else would we go. :) Some people were in our usual spot so we just found one and went for it, after all it was only one night. We were lucky to even find a spot not on top of a bunch of other people on 4th of July weekend. We set up camp, relaxed, went fishing, took a nice drive way back in the hills, and came back to camp and just enjoyed being together with no cell phones, computers or other people around. It was exactly what I needed. I was getting into a stressed, frustrated and depressed funk, and needed to clear my head. It feels so good! I would have very much liked to stay longer but eh, it worked.

The weird people in our spot. And they were SOO weird. They had a teenage son that walked around the campground with a revolver and a huge knife under his belt.... creepy!!





The next morning we slept in a bit and broke camp and drove towards home. Of course we took a little detour and ended up at Dagger Falls on the middle fork of the Salmon River. Gorgeous!!!!! On the way home we enjoyed watching rafters and kayakers raft down the Payette. It took us and hour and a half to get from Banks to Horseshoe Bend because of traffic.... crazy!!! On our way home we stopped by the cemetery and Granddad finally has his headstone... leave it to the government to take 3 months! I am so glad he finally has a permanent marker though. Because he is in the Veterans Cemetery all the markers are exactly the same. I wish we could have had something a bit nicer but this is what we got and its what he wanted. We came home a bit burnt with a few bug bites but I wouldn't trade them for another weekend at home!!


Dagger Falls. They were built to aid the returning salmons journey upstream to spawn. Very cool and very pretty!
The Salmon River