Our big night out

Stephan got his first night totally off in a long time Tuesday night. He was in a training class that morning, so he was finished at about 12:30. He figured we'd go back and work on the house that afternoon, but when I picked him up, the bags were packed, tarp, cooler, dogs, firewood, etc. We drove South out of town and spent the day hiking Medicine Rocks with the girls. He was so surprised and excited to be going camping that he set the car alarm off in the supermarket and didn't realize he had the car keys. I don't think I'd ever seen him so giddy.

So we drove out there, set up camp in a nice little spot (for photos please see the Flickr site), and set off to hike the park. I'd packed the new boots I'd bought Stephan for Valentine's Day 2006. Since school ended he hadn't had a chance to wear them. Finally, we got our boots dirty! We didn't find any artifacts this trip. Most of the area we were hiking was very well travelled. We scoped out where we want to camp next time a bit away from the picnic areas. The girls LOVED the trip. Look for the photo of Stephan literally pulling Besa up a steep part of the trek. They ran and ran and ran. Even when they were exhausted, they wouldn't sit still.

We got back to camp and made a good fire, cooked brats, ate chips, drank... um... stuff. Watched the sunset from the top of one of the rock formations (there are photos of this too), called family that we hadn't talked to in a while, and fell asleep watching the stars slide down the sky.

The next morning we drove down to Ekalaka for breakfast. Stephan did wash the trucks yesterday, and we didn't get any house work done really, but who really cares? It'll be there later. We had an amazine day together. Yet another day when I can't believe we actually live here. Medicine rocks is a 30 minute drive away from Plevna- so when you look at the photos, remember that's 30 minutes away from us.

Nuts.