Monday, August 18, 2008

Camping at Colter Bay

Neal and I went camping with our good friends Eric and Jessica Strebel to Colter Bay in Wyoming, just on the other side of the Grand Teton’s. It was absolutely breathtaking! The “boys” or I guess I should say “hubbies” went up early Friday 7/25/08 to pick out a camp spot and have dinner ready for us “girls” or “wifey’s” when we got there, since we had to work that day. The ideal situation right!:) Jessica and I got to Colter Bay and to our surprise the food in our dutch oven wasn’t cooking, the coals the boys had gotten weren’t lighting, so we ran to a store near our camp and picked up some briquettes and lighter fluid and got things going. We didn’t eat until nearly 10 that night and we were STARVING! But our hubbies did an awesome job at picking our camp site! As we were driving back home, they told me that just 3 days earlier, a grizzly bear stole someone’s cookies in our camp! I’m so glad they didn’t tell me that before…I would’ve been paranoid the whole time, but to our luck, we didn’t see one bear while we were there. We had a great time with the Strebel’s and we’re already missing them very much!
Grand Teton's
A fox that ran by in our campsite
The hubbies cooking dinner
Us with the Strebels
The "Bear Box" to keep the food and US safe!

Us and the Strebels at the lake by the mountains--not sure of the name of it though

Neal and Eric enjoying the view on a sunken picnic table.