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Friday, September 10, 2010

Labor Day Weekend

We took full advantage of our Labor Day weekend. Friday even after Nate got off of work, we took off and headed to Orem to spend some time with my family at the Storytelling Festival. The festival is always so much fun. Of course, I have always been a fan of good stories, but it is even better listening to very talented professional tellers tell them.

We came back from the festival Saturday evening, but we took off again Sunday evening and drove up to Logan. We then spent Labor Day with Melissa and Seth's family. We decided to go on a hike, so Monday morning after breakfast, we headed up Logan Canyon with Melissa, Zipper, and our two oldest nephews Scott and Max.

Tony Grove Lake

After looking up information online, we had decided to hike White Pine Lake, which started from Tony Grove. The information online told us that it was a two mile hike. Unfortunately, after finding the trail head, we found the sign telling us that it was a 3.8 mile hike.

We ended up going the whole way in any case, and we got back from hiking a lot later than we had planned.



It was worth it though. The lake was beautiful.

White Pine Lake

White Pine Lake with Mount Magog in background

And we had lots of fun. The nephews held up really well the whole way.



They even got to take turns walking Zipper. Plus, a large herd of sheep crossed the trail on our way back from the lake.


They looked really cool on the hillsides.

After returning, we had a hamburger barbecue, played a game of "Ticket to Ride," and ate dessert before heading back home.

2 comments:

Amy F. P. said...

I went to the storytelling festival with my family one year. It was so much fun, I'll never forget it.

Unknown said...

I'm impressed those boys hiked so well! Glad you had a fun labor day.