Camping and Mesa Falls

A couple weeks ago we went camping with our cousins who are also going to school at BYU-I and their families.  In September it can already be pretty cold in our part of Idaho, so we planned on going to a campground that had electrical hookups for our trailer in order to run the electric heater.  We got to the campground and every single site with electricity was full!  No big deal, we went to the loop that had no electricity... only it was a big deal, because I didn't charge the battery to the trailer, thinking that we would have electricity, so we had no way to run the propane heater, since you need some battery juice to start the flame!!  Needless to say, it was a bit chilly.  In the morning we had to plug the trailer back up to the truck and start the truck in order to warm things up a bit.  The next day I told Bo that we either needed to find a new camping spot with electricity, or I was going home.  So we drove to the campground next to Mesa Falls and they had one spot open with electricity.  Oh that made everything so much more enjoyable!

We had a great time showing our cousins around Mesa Falls and afterwards the boys all went elk hunting.  They weren't successful in killing an elk, but they were able to shoot two birds... I can't remember what they were, grouse, or partridges or some sort of upland bird.  They did see some elk at the very end of the day, but it was too dark to shoot and they also saw ten moose!  

On the way home from our campout, we stopped at warm river to feed the fish.  The fish here are huge and they come right up to you to eat bread.

And you know it was a good time, when this is the view in the backseat on the way home!