Darby Wind Caves & Tablerock!

Mark, Bailey, and I spent an awesome weekend camping in Teton Canyon. We love camping there. So many great hikes in that area. We had so much rain this spring, so everything was so green, and the wildflowers were in full bloom and were amazing!

Mark and Bailey got up early Friday morning and did a 28 mile bike ride on the path from Driggs to Victor. It was Bailey's last long ride before her race this coming weekend. When they got back, we had lunch and then headed out to hike to the Darby Wind Caves. Such a fun hike! The wildflowers were everywhere along the trail. So bright and vibrant. Bailey was in heaven!

Beautiful country!

This bee loved the bright blue flowers as much as we did!

Indian Paintbrush was everywhere. It's Bailey's favorite.

We could see the waterfall and wind caves.

When we've done this hike in the past, this stream hasn't been running. It was fun to to see the cute little waterfall this time. Our conversation went something like this:
Me: I'll give you a dollar if you stick your head under that.
Bailey: Will you give me two dollars if I go all the way under?
Me: Sure

 Bailey going under the waterfall!

It was so cold!

And of course once wasn't enough. This was her going under a second time.

I'm not sure there is a more beautiful place to hike!

The waterfall and cave.

The monument honoring the girls and their leaders who were stuck by lightening.

The big waterfall.

You can go right behind the big waterfall and look out at the canyon. So pretty!

Video from behind the waterfall.

Bailey and Mark standing behind the waterfall.

The cave!

We didn't go in the cave this time, because there was a lot of water still flowing out of it.

Darby Canyon

After our hike, we relaxed at our campsite the rest of the day. We read, took naps, played games, and Bailey did crossword puzzles.

Mark reading (which turned into napping).

Bailey napping.

 We got up early Saturday morning to hike Tablerock. It's one of our favorites, and Bailey wanted to do it before she went back to school. I really wanted to see a moose, and we did! We saw a cute mama and baby about 150 yards off the trail. We went up Face, and Bailey hiked back down Face, while Mark and I ran down Huckleberry.

The last mile up!

Almost there!

We made it!

There is no better view of the Tetons, than from right here!

Tricia

Bailey

Mark

Our lunch spot. We lucked out, and we had the top all to ourselves! That hardly ever happens!

We had lots of these little friends join us for lunch.

There was so much water on Huckleberry! 

The ferns were almost as tall as us on the Huckleberry trail.

We camp a lot in the fall, and it bums Bailey out because that's when she's back at school. She loves it! At least we got one good one in before she heads back to Boise.

BYU-I Closing Social

Another track ended at BYU-I. They go by so fast. I don't like it because right when we start getting to know the kids, they either graduate, get married, are off track the next semester, or move. But we ended the track with a fun closing social. We had dinner and then floated the warn slough river in Rexburg. We had a great tun out, and had a great time. A lot of the kids even saw a moose in the water. 

The Cone of Shame!

Poor little Oreo! She got a big scratch on her cornea. I've had that happen to me twice, and it is miserable, so I felt so bad for her. We took her to the vet and he gave us eye drops to put in. They didn't help at all. I took her back for her follow up appointment, and this time they drew her blood, and spun it, and we used the serum from that as eye drops. It still didn't work. The last resort was an eye surgery. They actually scratched a tic tac toe shape across the part of her eye that was already injured. That is supposed to cause her body to generate and send healing 'stuff' to the injured portion of her eye. I was skeptical, but it worked like a charm. I'm happy to report that she is finally back to normal.

During the second round of drops, we had her in a soft cone to keep her from scratching at her eye. Poor little thing!

She was so sad!

We tried not to laugh at her in the cone, but ended up sending text to each other like this...

After her surgery, she had to be in a hard cone for a week. She hated it, but was such a good sport. 

She had no sense of self with the cone on, and ran into EVERYTHING, including us!

Mark kept laughing at her and saying she looked like the Pixar lamp. Then I sent them this picture, and we decided she was a vacuum. Hahaha! She is such a sweet little puppy. Even when she was miserable, she was such a good girl. She hated the drops and the cone, but she was so good about it letting us put them in, and putting her cone back on even though you could tell she hated it.

I'm happy to report that her eye is all healed and she's back to her normal self.

Chukars!

Walsh has 4 season tickets to the Chukars games. We got to go this past week. It was our first game of the season. The Chukars lost pretty bad, but we still had a great time.

Noah, Bailey, Mark, Tricia

Charlie the Chukar.....aka James!

Walsh has great seats right behind home plate.