Our Snake River Hike

Believe it or not, it was warm last weekend! So, we decided to celebrate and walked through a grove of trees beside the Snake River. We saw giant moose tracks (and other "markings" - you've got to love the nature thing), lots of mice (oh so much fun), and a hawk that looked like it could eat Elise (I've never seen a bigger bird!). This place is incredible. Something about the lack of people here, I guess it's conducive to wildlife. Who would have thought? I have to say it's pretty amazing to see bald eagles while I drive Rand to work.

The river was amazingly clear and we had a lot of fun. Elise learned how to say "touch it" and used her new phrase whenever seeing a prickly tree, anything remotely looking like water, and this weird straw stuff where mice lived. She loves being outdoors. Michael, on the other hand, could have cared less. He slept the entire time and was not very cooperative when we were taking pictures, as you can see from the photos below :) Rand took a couple of pictures of the scenery - I think they turned out pretty well.