(08-04-2014)
So this is a very, very late post, but only because I just barely finished editing the pictures last night... I'm only a couple weeks late..
My family and I decided to take a spontaneous trip to Utah this summer. Everything was pretty last minute, I did not truly find out I was going until a week prior to leaving. We left our house at around 9:45am (it
was supposed to be 7am), driving straight all the way through to our relatives' house in the suburbs outside Salt Lake City. I think we stopped maybe 3 or 4 times along the way for food and gas. The entire trip was about a week long, starting from Saturday the 2nd, through Sunday the 10th. In that time, I traveled to Wyoming, worked on cars with my cousin all night long (literally, until we saw the sun rise the next day), went crawfish-ing at a lake all night long (literally, until we saw the sun rise the next day), and many other things. Above all, I got to spend time with family who I only get to see so often. Anyways, enough boring talk, let me move on to the pictures!
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| A view of Bear Lake from the Bear Lake Visitors Center. |
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| The living room from the cabin we rented in Jackson, WY. |
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| One of the two master bedrooms. |
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| Great views greeted us along the walk around Jenny Lake. The weather was also great as well. |
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| Brian and I waiting for the rest of our group to catch up. |
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| The bridge which crossed the river and into the west boat dock. |
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| Despite the name, Hidden Falls was extremely populated by tourists. |
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Brian being silly after he noticed that I was taking a picture of him.
This was the start of the trail leading to Inspiration Point. |
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| Finally, at the very tippy top of Inspiration Point. What a magnificent view of Jenny Lake. It's a shame there was not something like this on the other side so that we could get a view of the lake as well as the Tetons. |
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| Another view from the top. |
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| The hike back down was so much nicer on our tired bodies. |
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| Very picturesque creek along the way back down. |
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After we left Grand Teton NP at approximately 4:30pm, My cousin and I thought it would be funny to take the van (with all our passengers) up another 2hrs to Yellowstone NP. Needless to say the drive was well worth it. We paid $25 to get into Grand Teton and our pass was good for Yellowstone as well. So I figured, why the heck not?! What's another 2hrs on the road??
So Wyoming was Monday through Wednesday. On Friday night, Brian, our distant cousin Tai, my brother Bradley, and I took Brian's car out to Strawberry reservoir out in the middle of nowhere to go crawfish-ing. We left home around 10pm and drove for about 2hrs into the mountains east of Utah to get to this place. The view at night as both eerie and calming, and not to mention the moon was ginormous that night too!
The previous night, Brian and I had been working on his car from 9pm until 7am that morning. So needless to say, we were tired. Crawfish-ing at 12am the next day did not seem like the best idea, but screw it, we did it anyways. We ended up fishing from 12am until 5am. There was another 2hr drive back, so we did not make it back home until 7am the next morning. We were all extremely tired now, but we caught a lot of crawfish!
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| This is only 1/3rd of what we caught... |
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| Even Tango was tired.. He stayed up till 7am with us while we were working on cars the night before. Poor guy. |
That pretty much concludes the photo stream from my Utah/Wyoming trip. I wish I had taken more pictures while I was in Utah, but it is what it is. I had an amazing time there with my family and I absolutely cannot wait to go back again next month!
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