October Break Adventures

For October Break we took a trip up to the cabin, Thursday to Sunday. I wanted to include a few pictures from this trip. I didn't put them in order, however, but these are a few fun things we did while up in the cool pines.

*Drove the golf cart around the neighborhood, Jacob drove, the rest of us were just along for the ride. Taking Jacob out and letting him drive was a big mistake. That's all he wanted to do was drive the golf cart. Every morning, afternoon and night he was begging to go for a ride.

*Played Frisbee, Football, board games and table games as much as possible.

*Hunting for skunks each evening. Spotted at least 4 each night. 1 skunk even chased Jacob and Tyler. Or at least that's what they told me. I never saw the "charging" skunk.

*Attended the Snowflake Lobos Homecoming Football game with my brother Galen and his family. Thanks for the invite!

Playing football in the street.

Aaron out looking for skunks.Tyler skunk hunting.

Jacob Skunk hunting

Aaron playing frisbee

Jared playing frisbee

Games in the garage.

Golf cart rides

On the way home on Sunday, we decided to take a detour through Roosevelt Lake due to construction on the main highway around Sunflower. We had never taken this route before and were up for an adventure. Well it became quite the adventure. Once we reached the Roosevelt Lake, which was amazing and has a really cool bridge (my camera was safely packed in the back of the truck so no pictures), we came to a fork and had to make a choice. Continue on Route 188 to Globe or take Route 88 to Apache Junction. Well Route 88 to Apache Junction sounded so fast. That was until we got about 5 miles into the road. Suddenly there were signs that said pavement ends for next 22 miles. We had to make a choice and we choose to stay the course. Take the road less traveled by became our mantra. This road followed the river, winding this way and that, up and down hills, over 1 way only bridges with lots of switchbacks and washboard bumping. It was some of the most beautiful Arizona country we've ever seen. It was a true adventure. The road took us by Apache Lake, Canyon Lake and Tortilla Flats and spit us out next to the Superstition Mountains and into Apache Junction. It was a long ride, and probably one we won't take again for quite a while. The funniest part was as we got closer to Tortilla Flats, we came across tons of people heading into the canyons we were trying to get out of. I suppose this is great place for a nice Sunday afternoon drive, that's what it turned into for us!

When I got home I was telling my Mom about our round about trip home. She just laughed and said, Sherri, you've been on that road before when you were little. Dad and I took you kids on it when we were young and adventurous and had small children. So I told her we must be following tradition, cause we had just taken our young family on the same course. Funny how those things happen.