Antelope Island with People

We have been wanting to go to Antelope Island (K has never been even though he has lived in Utah his whole life!) and our library has a State Park pass that you can check out for one week and use to get in free to any of Utah's state parks. So the other day when we were at the library we were lucky enough and got to check it out. We called my sister, who lives about 10 minutes from the island, and invited them to go with us. We had a fun time and took way too many pictures to post them all, but here are a few:

The kids and the dads playing in the Great Salt Lake.

Cousins, Jakob and Becky, Jensen and Maxwell. (Maxwell thinks he needs to "pose" in every picture that we take!)

At the old ranch you can touch anything you want. So Maxwell climbed on this old tractor.

Of course Jensen wanted to climb on too! We had fun seeing all the old things at the ranch.

Maxwell and Jakob running down the boardwalk to the Great Salt Lake. They hardly stopped running the whole time we were there, but had a great time!

If you haven't been to Antelope Island, you should go. And check your local library and see if they have a state park pass.

Antelope Island

I had so much fun taking picutres when we went to Antelope Island a couple of weekends ago. Here are some of my favorites.

Taken at the old ranch on the south end of the island.

My favorite flower

At the ranch

At the ranch

The bison are free to roam the island.

Camping?!?!?

So for Labor Day weekend we decided to go camping. We got all excited and decided to go to Crystal Hot Springs for $15 a night. On their website it said they had water, showers, bathrooms, fire pits, water slides, swimming, a little lake for fishing, and a crawdad pond. So we got all packed-up and first had to go down to Salt Lake for family pictures on Saturday morning. Then after a fun family picnic we left for camping. We got there and signed-in, it went down-hill from there! We went to our reserved camping spot and found dirt and a huge old tree stump! We went back to the office and traded for another spot and yeah it was right by a water spout. So we started unloading and we found a picnic table to drag over and they said they would bring us a fire pit. We were still in dirt and dead grass, but we thought it would be okay. So we tried to fill-up our water jug and guess what no water! We had to get in the truck and drive back down to the office to fill-up the water jug, ugggg! Then we discovered that you had to hike all the way down the hill and around the office and pool to get to the bathrooms. Then they tried to bring us a fire pit with a hole in the bottom of it, Kaleb refused and made the guy find us a better one, which still had a hole, but at least it sat on the ground and was a smaller hole than the first one. So we made dinner, which was yummy and roasted marshmallows. It sprinkled in the night and I had to hike to the bathroom with stall doors that didn't close or lock. The showers were like junior high gym class, one large stall with three shower heads. -- Now mind you, I went camping a lot growing up and I really don't mind ruff camping as long as I know before hand that that is what I am getting into. This place was sooooo disappointing because their website made it sound like it was a really nice camp ground and we did pay $15 a night! -- So the next morning I woke-up with puffy swollen eyes that were burning and itching and watery. We decided that we would probably go home after lunch and then do something fun in Logan on Monday. Then the people next to us listened to the weather report and said the forecast was thunder and rain for the night and the next day. So we ate lunch and packed-up. The boys were very disappointed and we were too. But on the way home we watched the storm roll in and the sky got very dark. We heard a weather warning on the radio for up to 70 mph winds and lighting and they said anyone outside should take shelter. We got home, unpacked the truck, and it started raining 10 minutes later and didn't stop until almost lunch time the next day. We were sure glad we came home! We want to go camping again, but never at Crystal Hot Springs!