A Day in the life of.......: September 2008

Courtney's family has a cabin up in Island Park Idaho and there was a weekend where her family was not going to be up there so she got permission to invite Ilse and I and so we went up on Wednesday August 13th and stayed till Saturday August 16th up there with her Grandma who was Staying there for the whole month of August. We took lots and lots of pictures which I won't boar you with but I will so you my favorite ones.

This was the first group Picture we took we thought it would be fun to take pictures at all the state lines so obviously Idaho would be the first state line we would cross. I did do the stupid thing form a walk to remember and stratled the state line and yelled out I'm in two places at the same time, what can I say I'm a dork.

This was just a really cute Picture of us inside Courtney's cabin. For those of you who don't know who these people are on the left in Yellow is Courtney, in the Middle is Ilse (Ill-sa is how you say her Name), and on the right in Black is me. We had a glamor morning where we did each others Hair it was really fun to have a total girlly girl morning. But Seriously don't we all look cute!

well this is the only picture of the river by Court's cabin that I like enough to put up even though I look like a retard but the river is so cool they get fish that are 2 feet long it's way cool, also the water dose not look very deep at all at leas when you look into it but it really is I didn't jump in to see if Court was telling the truth I just trusted her.

We went to this really Pretty Lake Called Quake Lake. The lake was created by an Earthquake and then the quake site flooded.

This Bolder during the Earthquake rolled down one side of the mountain then up to where it sits now.

This is a Picture of that same bolder just so you can see how big it really is. The plaque between Ilse and I has a list of all the people who died in the flood that followed the Earthquake.

Now we Decided that since we did a Glamor morning we should do some glamor picture the following are my favorites that we took here.

This is one of my favorite pictures of me and as most of you know I am very picky about pictures of me so I hope you like it. So after they saw this picture of me they all wanted one as well right here.

This was just a cute Picture of Ilse and me by a big bolder.

So We took Lots of pictures here if you want to see them just ask cause I'll show you but I didn't want to post them all up here because we just took way to many in my opinion. After we finnished up at Quake lake we Droive into west yellowstone and Went looking around it remided me a little of old town San Deigo just walking in and out of all these little shops we went into this one Jewlery stor and Court bougt us all an Amber pendant next time any of you are at my house I'll show you but we all decided that that was perfect for me because one of my favoirte songs that we listend to a lot on this trip was 311's Amber. Any Way we bought this sour dough bread mix that we took back the cabin to make and this bread doesn't call for Milk or Water the liquid ingredient is ...... any guesses?........... BEER! It's called beer bread and it is really good by they way. Luckly we were all old enough to buy beer so that was not a problem.

So we all thougt it would be funny to take a picture of me holding the bottle that the breadmix was in and the bottle of beer while Ilse held the bread up and pretended she wasn't in the picture. Now the funny part to them was I was the only person who drink's in our group so the now wanted proof I told them that this dosen't count as proof because anyone can hold a bottle for beer and we know I didn't drink it because we needed it for the bread.

Day Two

Friday We Got up early. Well I woke every one up and then went back to sleep until Ilse jumped on top of me and then for the rest of the morning they all learned that Victoria is not a Morning person in fact they learned that Victoria is Grumpier than Grumpy the dwarf in the morning. So we got up and through on shoes and sweatshirt and went to big lake where we saw lots of fish the were ginormous. That morning was our "Footloose and Fancy 'Free'" morning if you catch my drift if not it's okay. Later that day well not much later we actually went into yellowstone park and I have tons of pictures but I'm only putting a few up so like I said if you want to see more I'll show you.

Welcome to Montana. This was on the way to West Yellowstone.

We felt the need to take a funny picture. "really you can't afford a DUI?"

Finally we made it to Yellowstone. We stopped to take a picture here and no one was here and then all of the sudden 15 people decided to do the same thing I like that we were the trend setters.

This was at the Geyser basin. The pictures we took don't do it justice cause it was just so beautiful. This was really nice because the stem would hit use and then we would get a cool breeze so we never got to hot or cold.

This is one of the many Waterfalls in Yellowstone and we thought lets take a picture.

So there are these flower all over in these ponds along the side of the road and I just thought that they were the most beautiful flowers I have ever seen, and in the moment and idea was born......(a possible felony just don't tell the Yellowstone parks patrol.)

I Wanted to take a flower home with me but unfortuantly my arms are to short so I needed some help.

So I asked my tall friend Ilse to pick it for me. If you look in top right corner you can see my holding on to Ilse so she doesn't fall in.

and to the Victor-ia goes the spoils.

So I had never been to Old Faithful and I really wanted to see it so when it went off I said to Court will you take a quick picture of me and the not so faithful Old Faithful. Both Ilse and I really wanted to see it so we drove there hoping to see it and just our luck by the time we got there it had just gone off so we waited the hour and an half that it takes now so that we could see it. I didn't get to see the person put the exlax in it to make it go off though, Maybe that's why is not regular anymore.

We went to this really beautiful Place called artist Point and it was breath takingly beautiful so we asked some one to take a picture of us here.

Now I am not a photographer but I just thought that those of you who are and most espessally Jess would really like this picture that I took of the waterfall at artist point.

Sadly every Trip to Yellowstone must come to and end so this is how we said goodbye. (it was really unfortunate because Victoria's bladder struck again. I really had to go to the bathroom bad when we took this picture good thing we were close to a bathroom however it took forever to find one that was open.)

So we all had I travel Buddy (they told me I needed to bring on I really don't have one but I was told to bring one any way) but this is Courtney's and I took this picture because Courtney and her Monkey are listening to the song "Me and My Monkey" Got to love Robbie Williams Right Shell?

Day 3

Oh No Ilse and I got caught in the two seater out house!!!

That is where Court's Cabing is located on White's Acre.

This is Court's Cabin and her Grandma who is the sweetest lady ever. I love how it looks like a real Cabin.

Before we left we went to L-iner with Courtney's Grandma and had really good bugers. Dosn't it look like we like each other well it should because I had so much fun with Courtney and Ilse I can't even telly you how much fun we had.