Sun Valley 2009

Last week we went on our annual trip to Sun Valley. We'll start off with the traditional "lift" picture:

Who is the 5th shoe you might ask?


It's Wendy!!!

Mark and I at the top!

All of us on the trail with the camera propped up on a log

We had quite an adventure this year. We had a time limit of two hours, so half way through, we left the trail and just started walking down the service road. Well it turned out it wasn't the service road we thought it was and we ended up walking all the way over to the wrong mountain and back again. We finally made it though.

Mark and I were fine with the round-about way down, but i felt so bad for Wendy. She forgot to bring her hiking shoes with her, so she had to borrow her moms Tennis shoes. Let's just say there weren't much traction on them.

Once we finally made it down, we went home and cleaned up, had some lunch, and went swimming. Then cleaned up again and Mark and I went bowling at the little bowling alley they have on the resort.

I'll just come out and say it: I suck at bowling. Mark beat me by more than double the points

Mark and the ball. They are practically one now.

Later we FINALLY made it to the ice cream social. They have this every year and of the three years we have gone this is the first time we have made it for some reason. I mean come on, it doesn't get better than free ice cream!

Here we all are enjoying our ice cream.

Strauss, Kassandra, Katrina, Robert, Mark

Mom and Dad

Wendy, Doug, Cheryl, and Abi

Mark REALLY loved his ice cream!

Almost as much as the kids!

Strauss

Abi

Kassandra

Later that night we went back to the condo and hung out and played games.

I saw Cheryl combing Abi's hair and couldn't resist a picture. So cute!

Some of you may remember our trip to this store 2 years ago. We were pretty disappointed there weren't as many weird clothes to try on this year. This was the best we got

We had a great time! Thank you Mom and Dad for providing the opportunity for us to relax in such a great place!