North Carolina

Charlotte, North Carolina

We just returned from a long weekend in Charlotte seeing the sights, visiting friends and watching the Chicago Bears play the Carolina Panthers.

We went to check out the Whitewater Center on Friday - the largest man made rapids - pretty cool!

Then we stopped at the Blues, Brews and BBQ festival to have some good old southern cookin' and listen to some Blues.

We also had a chance to catch some Jazz in the park and eat at some great restaurants! Ross got to hang out with college friends - and I finally had the chance to meet them (and their wives)!!!

Then some Football...

Josh, Ross and Joe before the game... Boy was it HOT!!!

GO BEARS!!! Despite our devoted support - the Bears lost 20 - 17. But all in all, we had a great weekend!!!

Sawtooth Mountains - Idaho

Sawtooth Mountains
We spent our Labor Day Weekend up in Idaho in the Sawtooth Mountains. We drove through Sun Valley - stopped and had lunch then headed up and into the mountains. We found a great camping spot near Petit Lake - had a great view of the mountains from our camp.

Ross scouting out the lake (too hard to fish here).
Sunny waiting patiently for a stick to be thrown into McDonald Lake.

View of the White Cloud mountains at sunset Friday night from Yellowbelly lake.

Our hike to Hell Roaring Lake on Saturday.

View of Finger of Fate - we fished in the Upper Hell Roaring Lake for a while - Ross caught 13 fish - I caught 1! Hmmm...

Me sitting in the stream after spraining my ankle. We still had a 2 mile hike out to the car!!

Sitting on the lawn at Redfish Lake Lodge listening to the free concert Sunday night - Weinland, a band from Portand. Sunny really enjoyed the concert too!

The Redfish Lake Lodge

View of the Sawtooth basin on our drive out Sunday night - it got COLD! We drove part way home, slept in a rest area then finished the drive in the morning.

What we came home to Monday morning!!! Nice weather!!! I wasn't missing much as I spent the morning in the InstaCare making sure my ankle wasn't broken (nope - just sprained.)