Craig had a conference in Sun Valley the first weekend in October, so we headed up there Wednesday after work. The kids stayed home with a babysitter the first 2 nights and then with my mom the next 2 nights. McKay had a soccer game and Brooklyn had a soccer tournament that my Mom kindly took care of getting the kids to and from. We got to the Lodge just before the power went out in the whole city for some routine maintenance stuff, luckily we knew before hand and they had flashlights ready for everyone. Luckily the power was back on by the time we woke up Thursday morning. After a quick breakfast in our super awesome suite, we headed into the Sawtooth's to hike up to Goat Lake. It was a beautiful hike into a beautiful lake. The water was a gorgeous teal color, probably one of the prettiest lakes we have ever hiked into. It was about 9 miles round trip and worth every mile. We went out to dinner and then sat in the hot tub to relax those muscles afterwards.
On Friday Craig needed to go to classes for his CE credits, so I took the day to myself. I headed to the gym, walked around the village and got a giant dark chocolate peanut butter cup from the candy store, read my book by the fire pit, took a nap and then that evening we headed out to dinner with a few of our optometry friends and their wives. It's always fun to get together with them, which happens once a year at this annual conference.
On Saturday we were up and ready for our next hike. This time it was just outside of Hailey. The plan was to hike to Hyndman's Peak (one of the 9 peaks in Idaho above 12,000ft). Well we hiked for about 11 miles, but never made it to the top of the peak. We didn't have great directions for the hike, but thought it would be pretty self explanatory, find the tall peak and hike to it. Well it wasn't quite that simple, there were 3 different peaks that all looked about the same height and we ran out of trail about 3 miles in. Eventually I made Craig turn around and we bushwacked our way all the way back down. We were both covered in goat heads and thorns by the time we got back down. We were both super confused and it took a lot of research on Craig's part when we got home to figure out what went wrong. Well come to find out it was pretty simple, we started at the wrong trail. We all know that we will be going back to do it again. By the time we got back and showered, we were both pretty tired. We grabbed a quick dinner and then watched a little football and then headed to bed early.
Sunday morning we just got up and packed up and started back for home. We listened to General Conference on our way back home and then got back to my Mom's house and watched the afternoon session their before taking the kids back home. It was a fun quick get away, but as always it was great to get back to the kiddos. We love Sun Valley and are so grateful that we were able to make this happen with the help of others.
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