Country skiing

 Since David had never been cross country skiing, we decided that we would do that before we left. Nathan wanted to come "country skiing" too. We rented our skis from BYU-I and headed up to Hariman in Island Park. The weather was absolutely beautiful, 34* and sunny. We brought a sled with us to carry our provisions (and Nathan when he got tired). Nathan surprised us, he did very well on his skis. At first when he would fall he needed help getting up but he soon learned to get up on his own. He has a very short stride (MUCH shorter than grandpa's!) so he went very slow, but he kept going and going.

Learning how to turn

Getting ready in the parking lot

Off we go!

Waiting

The one downhill part of the trip, Heather and I had to do it twice.

More waiting

Nathan pulling the sled

We had to convince Nathan to get in the sled, he had taken his skis off and was just walking with us.

We made it to the Jones house for our lunch, but it was closed so we had to eat outside.

Dad had given David a lesson on trains in Yellowstone along the trip, so he was able to read more about that at lunch.

We had a really fun trip, even if it did take us two hours to go 3 miles. It was worth it!