Camping to the Middle Fork

We headed up the Middle Fork of the Boise River for our 1st and last family camping trip of of the season.  I was a little disappointed that we hadn't made it out during our crazy summer and wanted to have a last family excursion before our little miss arrives.  We ended have a great time and were blessed with some great weather.  We ended up getting up and setting up camp Friday afternoon.  Blake enjoyed some fishing while Allie and I enjoyed hanging out by the river with dad and getting dinner cooked up.  The funnest thing about camping in the fall is crawling into your tent at 7:30 when it's pitch black out and hanging out in your confined space till morning.  We ended up having the laptop with us and popped in a movie to watch.  Blake and I passed out early while Allie stayed up to watch Willy Wonka.  Allie informed us in the morning that we both missed the best part of the movie, "Violet turning into a blueberry!"  The next morning we woke up, had breakfast, and took down camp.  We then enjoyed a scenic fall drive, made our way to Atlanta, ID and found ourselves a hot springs to dip into.

Allie enjoying the best part of camping.....the yummy snacks

The fisherman getting ready

Learning the ropes of fly fishing from Dad

Not quite sure what this reaction was to, but love that I caught this face on camera

Our camp spot was on a beautiful bend of the river.   I love how no one else is camping in late October; we picked out the best spot that we could find.

Blake and Allie getting cozy on the rocks in the hot springs that we finally found.  It was like a treasure hunt to find a hot springs.  Our map showed the hot springs but we would head up trails that would lead to nowhere,  we stopped at spots where we weren't able to find trails into the hot springs, we found hot springs across the freezing cold river and just weren't having any luck.  We finally found one that was right along the river and had multiple pools that we all enjoyed.

A family picture to prove that we were all there



Blake and Allie proving we made it to Atlanta, ID

It snowed on us during our drive home so we had to stop and take a picture of our "first" snow of the season.  

I just love fall and the changing colors of the leaves on the trees.  My favorite thing to do is to go on drives up in the mountains to view how beautiful this time of year is.

We sure enjoyed all the beauty that was surrounding us during our trip up to the mountains.  Here's to the memories of our 2010 camping trip!