Saturday, August 23, 2014

Uinta Camping- Day 2

We all were woken up by our tent collapsing on one side because of the heavy SNOW that had accumulated on it.  It happened at least 4 more times while we were staying warm in tent playing cards and/or reading.  It was a lot of fun actually.
The kids had to go potty and we went out and it was just SO beautiful.  WOW!  It was so pretty.
We got up to make some yummy breakfast, actually Enrique made our yummy breakfast.  He wants to be the cook while we are camping, sounds great to me!  :)  Anyway, his shoes were still soaking wet, every one's were actually.  So he put bags around his feet so they'd stay a bit more dry that way, so did everyone else after that.
He started a fire so we could be warm.  Man it was cold .  Then skies cleared up a bit and would could see blue skies.  The Jorgenesens slowly came down one by one to eat.  Once everyone was up and had eaten and stopped raining/snowing, Jarom asked to ride his off road dirt bike.  So Jarom, Ammon, and Jerika were riding it around the back loop of the campsite.  Then Enrique took our kids a few times and then Tab taught Eliza to do it and she was able to do it by herself.  It was fun watching them all have such a blast.  Enrique and Tab had a blast too, riding the kids around.  Just as were were finishing up, the campsite supervisors came around and said we weren't allowed to be riding it around.  So they put it away.
It was clear for some time, specially for the kids riding the dirt bike.  Then the sun really came out and felt so nice.  We hurried up and started hanging all the wet stuff, socks, shoes, pants, shirts, coats, blankets.....everything!  ahhahaha  It was all hanging on the clothes line for about a good 30-45 minutes then all of a sudden the rain and snow came back.  While we were hanging everything out to dry, most of the kids went on a little walk to explore the campsite.  I'm so glad that the Jorgensen's kids are good with our kids.  Their youngest kid is the same age as our oldest kid.  But they all get along well and have a great time together.
We decided that everyone could snack for lunch while we went on a drive, so we could all be warm and dry.  We went down to hike the waterfall place.  It had stopped raining again, so that was nice.  We were able to take some beautiful photos.  By the time we got down to Mirror Lake, the clouds rolled in super fast and it started snowing so much we couldn't even see the massive mountains we just drove through.  It is such a beautiful place to be!  We just love being up there.  Even though everyone was wet and cold, the kids didn't complain too much and just had fun.
When we got back to camp, both families kept debating if we stay the other night we were supposed to or just go home.  One minute we'd all stay and the next we'd all go, it went back and forth like that for some time.  We had dinner and all decided to pack up, sleep at home and then go up to Mt. Green tomorrow to finish up our camping trip.  Mark had left right before our drive because he had to go to work, but it was fun having him for a bit.