Our vacation

First we started off traveling to Rexburg to stay with Jamie and Nathan: this is the kids teasing the kitten outside the window... The next morn, Ryan ran his personal best in the Teton Dam half marathon: "Way to go, IdaHO!"
stretching...

We celebrated our 4th anniversary by going here: to the North Hiway Cafe -- I thought Ry would enjoy it because I'd heard it was worthy of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. I'm not so sure about that anymore, but it certainly was and experience to remember.

Laur hitched a ride with us after we hoteled in Boise with the rest of the crew -- only to get very carsick in the back o' the van -- what with all those windy roads the last hour and a half.

We ended up at Wallowa Lake, OR where we reunioned in cabins with the Inman clan -- here we are exporing the town of Joseph in the pouring rain:

So the trip(s) there weren't bad because they were very much broken into handleable increments -- the trip home, I was dreading because of the 10 hour-ness of it. It actually wasn't ALL that bad -- no major incidences even though our kids hung from railings at rest stops:

. . . and Max actually even (and finally) fell asleep after dinner -- I think he confused his last bite of sandwich with his bink -- don't worry, he woke up an hour later and finished off what was left of it. (go ahead and click on that to enlarge -- it's pretty hilar.)