Family Vacation- Worland style

Friday August 10th we left Provo and headed to Wyoming again, but this time as a family!

We stopped at one of my favorite places - Wind River Canyon, and got out to play in the water.

Saturday we started out at the farm!  Alex and Heidi discovered the wonders of rides on a swinging gate, and got put in charge of feeding the horses.

There was the usual riding of horses.

Unfortunately the minute we showed up at the farm Alex started sniffling and complaining about watery eyes.  It appears she might have inherited Dad's hay fever.

Heidi was Grandpa's little sidekick

And obeyed his every command.

The horse the kids were riding was being treated for a cut on it's face and possible broken bones.  So Grandpa put it to sleep so they could check it out.  Unfortunately it fell asleep on the wrong side and needed to be turned over.

Heidi was very interested in what was going on.

Perhaps she will become the next family vet.

After the farm we went to Thermopolis and spent the afternoon swimming in the hotspring fed swimming pool.  It was wonderful.  We also discovered the park where they moved all the great old playground equipment.

Thank you Worland for keeping around all the "unsafe" and much more entertaining toys, like giant slides, merry-go-rounds and wooden spinning tunnel things.

It took me back to my youth and the hours spent with cousins inside this thing.

In our down time we watched olympics, picked raspberries, cooked delicious food and ran around the backyard.  We got to go to church in Worland and were reminded a million times from everyone we saw, how amazing our Grandparents are!  After a fantastic Sunday dinner and some sad goodbye's we took off for Billings.