Steiner Reunion, Labor Day 2011

So I forgot to blog about Trev's immediate family reunion. We went to Red Fish Lake/Alturas Lake, which are a little bit past Sun Valley, ID. It was a lot of fun going for two nights to a girls camp, where we stayed in a cabin. The downside? Mice. Gross.

Hence why Kylie and I stayed on the table for the first 3 hours we were there, while waiting for the rest of the family to get there....(My face is my version of rebelling against Trevor telling us to smile...)

But anyways, before we got there, we passed through Arco, ID. One of the smallest towns I've ever seen. I honestly don't know where the people live...but here is their main street....

And the side of the street we are on? Oh, just some war memorial things and the sweetest mountain...

This is the top part of a submarine...

A missile...with some sort of slouching creature in front. Embarrassing.

Luckily, Kylie's ancestors (or grandparents) come from here and so she knew what this mountain was all about. Every year the graduating class goes and paints their year on there. Cool.

So we got there, and it was fun. I forgot to take pictures of the BEAUTIFUL mountains and lakes with my camera..they are on Trev's camera which is currently broken. But here are some pics from the internet. It's much prettier in real life, but whatever. They are FREEZING cold though...no swimming took place because of it.

Alturas Lake

Red Fish Lake

Why is it Red Fish Lake? Because every fall, the Sockeye Salmon do their spawning here. They travel from the ocean and all over for the big event. Anyways, that's all we wanted to see were the salmon, which turn bright red when spawning and they get humps. Anyways, we looked and looked, and finally found some. VERY cool.

They aren't the best pictures, but it really was cool to see them.

And of course, Trev fished at every and any time he could. This is the tiny fish he caught by the cabin in water that was about 2 inches deep.

And after a VERY restless night the first night at the cabin, because I could hear the mouse eating stuff, and had seen it in every room of the cabin (I have never had to sleep in the same room as a mouse knowingly..it was hard), we captured it just before bed the second night. Thank goodness. Trev and I were seriously considering sleeping in the van because I couldn't handle it.

Yeah, gross. But still we were victorious.

And what is a post from us unless we show you the latest in spiders that have entered our apartment...:)

What is that you may wonder....just the close relative to the turantula. :) No...we can't figure out what kind of spider it is. Last time we got our spider coming through the crack between the door and door frame it was that big but definitely a hobo spider. They love us. But it was gigantic and luckily Trev saw it come in. Gross. And yep, Trev made me spray this one, just like he did the other one. What did he do? He climbed onto the counter...again. Haha. (But in his defense, I had shoes on and he didn't.)

Welp, that's all folks...until we post our many pictures of Paxton..again. :)