We try to take our kids on one big family trip every year and on several day outings each year. We usually also spend one weekend a year visiting the Brashers and two weekends a year camping at Bear Lake. We weren't sure how COVID-19 and everything else going on was going to affect everything this year. So far we have kept our day outings to places away from people.... like going to the Little Sahara sand dunes. We didn't go to the Brashers this year for Robert's graduation, which was so sad, but we just want to keep everyone healthy. We didn't go to the Robertson family reunion or to the first Bear Lake week camping trip. We had already booked and paid for our trip to Yellowstone before all this happened. We figured that camping would be enough social distancing to keep us safe. Hopefully it was, but where we couldn't social distance we wore masks. Right after our trips through the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone, we spent the week at Bear Lake. We did see some cousins, but it was very minimal for who usually comes. My cousin and her family had COVID a month ago. They are all doing great and only one in 7 people ended up in the hospital with pnuemonia. Another cousin's family currently has it (they did not come to the lake). Out of their family of 9, only two haven't tested positive yet. They are currently quarantining and no one has had to go to the hospital, but the dad said that he was soooooo sick for 6 days and he wasn't sure that he would wake up when he went to sleep. My 2nd cousin's family had it. Their family of 6 recovered from the virus, but the dad ruptured his intestine and had to have 4 emergency surgeries, is on a ventilator and they have him sedated while his body tries to heal. They said that if he makes it through the next 48 hours then he will be okay. That's who we're fasting for today. We've had 4 families in our ward get it and we had one of our daycare kids living with a grandma who had tested positive. I think that what will likely happen is that kids will go back to school and in about a month they will have to go back to distance learning. My kids did okay with distance learning, but they did not excel at it, but if it keeps people in better health I'm okay doing it.
The beginning of our trip, we drove up to the Grand Tetons, I lysoled the heck out of our hotel room and then we went to find dinner while the lysol settled in our hotel room. The first day, we went to Jenny Lake. We took the ferry over to the other side and hiked to the Hidden falls and Inspiration point. I then took the two younger ones to play in the river and to play on the the other bank of the lake while Jer took the older two on a longer hike up one of the canyons. They did great. They saw a moose and we saw a weasel. It rained on us three times for very brief amount of times, but it was fun. The worst part of the rain is that Jer's crew got stuck in the rain on the ferry back, but they couldn't do anything but sit there. Apparently there was a bear at the dock 20 minutes before we crossed on the ferry and then he was at the Hidden falls just after we left there. I'm glad that we didn't cross paths with him.
One of the fun things this trip is that all 6 of us took turns taking pictures with the camera. I remember some of the ones that people took, but I want to try to point out who took which one as I post about our trip. These 4 were all off my phone. I'll post the ones from my camera in the next post.
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