aaaaand.....cabin trip time once again!

We went up to the cabin over memorial weekend with the kids. It was an exciting trip because we were finally going to put some real furniture in our main room! We found these couches that are micro-suede that look like real distressed leather but without the cold feel of leather. The cabin is cold enough as it is and we wanted something warm.

As you can see from the picture, Mafia loves these couches...he wants to marry them!

Anywho...we stuffed them into a U-haul trailer to bring them up. Yes, I'm gearing up for a trailer nightmare story. On the way, one of the couches blew off the trailer! And I mean, we had them WEDGED in tight...but no straps. Let that be a lesson. No matter how heavy and secure you think your truck load is, it ain't.

Well, so Kevin backed the truck up on the side of I84 with trucks and traffic whizzing past to where our couch was...just sitting there on the side of the freeway (well off the road thank goodness). No, I didn't take any pictures...sorry. We are lucky it didn't go through someone's windshield and that it wasn't smashed to bits. Just a little rip on one corner and a missing foot. The thing that kept going through my mind was that one of us was going to die there on the side of the road...just scarier than hell.


On a lighter note, Kevin caught this fish and we ate it. He usually doesn't keep any fish he catches but he kept this one for Polina who wanted to try it. It was super good...lots of little bones though. Which brings me to a story that is famous in our family. Poor Chelsie will forever be traumatized by a cabin trip long ago (I think she was 14) where Kevin convinced her to try some trout that he had caught...telling her how tasty it was. Her first bite, she got a fish bone stuck in her tonsil and we couldn't get it out. We tried peanut butter on toast, etc. It was stuck! Ended up taking her down to Rexburg ER to have it taken out at the hospital there. So needless to say, Chelsie didn't have any of this fish.

Here's Chelsie and Polina "excercising"...Polina called this one the dead bug...you can't tell from the picture but they are wiggling their arms and legs vigorously. They said they were sore the next day. It's some kind of pilates move or something. You can see more of the couch in the background.

Here's Michael getting ready to run. He had to get pretty covered up because it was COLD! We did stay indoors most of the time since it snowed off and on and was just mainly miserable outside. That's the kitchen in the background...new tile countertop with the edging. That was our latest project. Jasper and Polina and I went into Yellowstone Park on Saturday...found a rock...had to take pictures on it.

Old Faithful going off...very impressive sight and this picture does not do it justice.

Big ole beast...laying very close to the road...we got to get up close because we were standing on a bridge overlooking where this animal was. We saw lots of bison and some with little calves that were only a few weeks old. Saw some elk...no babies yet.

And extremely hot smelly water! The color in this pool is totally unreal..again, the picture is inadequate but I thought it was worth a shot to post it. It was boiling hot.

We had a lot of fun on this trip and hope to spend more time outside on the next one.