Our Trip to Salmon, Idaho

I loved this trip! Actually it was 2 trips within 5 days of each other. My friend from work is from Salmon. Her mother was very ill. I went up there to take pictures of the family as they were having a reunion of sorts as the doctors had given her a matter of weeks to live.

As we were getting ready for this trip, Dallin asked me how long this drive was going to take. I told him 5 hours. Immediately he responded, "THAT'S 300 minutes, mom!!!!!" I said to him, "That's close buddy... It's 250 minutes." This response got a look from Scott that was pretty self explanatory! He said to me, "How many minutes are in an hour?" I responded, "60". Thinking to myself, "what a dope!" He said, "And HOW many hours are you driving?" I said, "5. Oh... ya buddy, you are right! It IS 300 minutes!" I guess I am NOT smarter than a kindergartner!

So this is what our car looked like while entertaining 2 children on a 300 minute drive!


Mud Lake! It's so tiny!


No... I absolutely was NOT photographing anything while driving. Honest...

Or - not... :)

This was the coolest door when we were almost to Salmon. We had to take a potty break after a LOT of miles of just the above picture around us. So this was the place to stop (well, across the street was).


My friend's sister lives on Lovers Lane... heheheeeeee I thought it was a pretty great name!


I don't remember if I knew this or not. It was a cool little bit of info :)


During the trip my friend and her husband took us out to show us Salmon. And what should we come up on... But this....

Is that a Mercedes???? With antlers on top??? Oh MERCY!

I haven't laughed this hard in a VERY long time!!!!!


And this very cool caterpillar! Entertained the children for a good long time!


I am wondering if Maggie will forever have this desire to eat dirt. I mean it hasn't killed her yet. And I am sure she has built up some serious immunities with all the bacteria she has ingested.


Dallin loved throwing rocks into the river.


We saw some people floating down the river. I was hoping to go there for the 4th of July to float with my friends! I thought that would be just awesome!


This was a funny site to me.


I think kids are hilarious! "I'm not tired! I'm not tired!" Yet this is what happens after they play hard and have a car ride home!


This is one of the photos I took of my dear friend, her sisters and her mother.


Turned out that she went into a coma the very next day. So the next weekend I went back up without the kids for the funeral...

This is a very cool windmill that I passed a few times :)


And I had to leave after work on Sunday, so I got to see an AMAZING sunset on my way there.


We did take an afternoon and I was taught how to shoot a gun. I have been taught before, but since I don't own a gun or shoot on any kind of a regular basis, I need refreshers each time.


It's kind of a crazy feeling when you see that you can hit something so far away!


This girl is the toughest cookie I have ever met. I absolutely adore and admire this woman!!!


Look what I did with some gun... I can't remember what it was called.


Then when I left to go home again, I ran into this beauty....

If you can't tell, I am a sucker for sunsets!