weekending Island Park style

Our lovely friends, Ian and Melissa, invited us to come stay with them at their uncle's cabin in Island Park, Idaho. It was such a fun weekend! We headed up Friday night. The cabin was absolutely amazing! I could have hung out there forever. We started out the weekend with taking the 4-wheelers into the forest. It was gorgeous! But I totally messed up my back. I do every time I let Nathan drive the 4-wheeler. I should probably learn my lesson. (ps. the pictures from 4-wheeling are terrible because they're from my phone. DEAL WITH IT).

Nathan took this picture because he said I looked like a crazy lady with my hair all messed up from the wind and dirt all over my face. I even have a dirt unibrow. 

We ate the most delicious lunch at a little place on the river. We were freaking starving, so maybe that's why it tasted so good. But I ate until I felt sick. The best kind of meal!

We hung out on a little rocky beach on the Snake River and then got a paddle boat. I wish there was video or even pictures of this adventure. They told us that it would be hard to paddle with 4 people on the boat, but it was basically impossible. We all had burning thighs. That sounds weird. You get what I mean. Basically Melissa and I sat in the boat and kinda paddled while Nathan and Ian pushed us up the river. Then Ian got tired but Nathan refused to give up. I really have no idea why he was so determined, but he pushed us up and down that dang river. It was really fun. But then a spider bit me and it was the scariest thing that has ever happened to me. Not because it was a giant, poisonous spider, but because spiders are actually Satan and they all deserve to die long, slow, terrible deaths.

We hung out, grilled some hamburgers for dinner, and played my new favorite game, Sequence. It was so much fun! I won a lot in the beginning, but then I sucked the next time we played. Or maybe I was just pretending to suck? The world may never know.

Melissa and Ian's puppy, Guss, they brought along. I'm obsessed with him.

 This picture makes me laugh. Because we didn't plan those faces. Just telepathy, I guess.

Then we had a bonfire and made s'mores and roasted starbursts and talked for hours. I love having friends that are just so easy to talk with. We told scary stories and happy stories and I thought a lot about how if a mad man was hiding in the trees watching us, we would never know. I have a disturbing brain.

We slept in, laid around, ate even more food (if that's possible) and then headed to a waterfall! I have never seen a real waterfall. I've seen small ones or little trickles down a mountain, but this was amazing! It was massive and so gorgeous. I loved it there.

We then grabbed one of the most delicious milkshakes I have ever eaten, which was the perfect way to end the trip.

It was a lovely weekend. Thanks for having us, Ian and Melissa! We just really, really like you guys :)

 Apparently, I am the only one who thought we were doing ugly faces.