Our day trip to Utah, Colorado and Wyoming!

Last Saturday we decided to take a day trip to see some of the sights around here. Even if the Uintah Basin doesn't have many places to shop they sure do have a lot of places to fish, bike, ride, hike,walk, and places to see.

We fist started off going to a place called Calder Reservoir to see if we could try our luck at catching a fish. We didn't catch anything but the boys sure had fun trying to catch a fish with their daddy's help. We then drove to a place called Browns Park which is where there is an old looking bride that is called a "swinging bridge." This bridge goes over the Green River and is still is in usable condition.....looking at it you might not think so! The original bridge sign read, "Load limit 200 sheep, 30 cattle, or 3 and a half ton gross." We would watch cars go over it and you could see the bridge move underneath as the car would drive over it. It was only a little bit wider than our truck.....pretty narrow bridge! It was actually neat to go over such an old bridge.....that boys thought is was pretty cool!

We then headed to a wildlife refuge place that was a few miles into Colorado. We took a little nature walk and found these cool lime green yellow frogs everywhere! Just as we were about to get ready to go to our next stop Sam turned around and hit his head of the tailgate of the truck. I was busy chasing after Jack when I heard Sam screaming. Jake was already right there grabbing him to take him in the visitors building to clean him up. I felt so bad.....I looked at Samuel and all I could see was blood all over his face. He kept rubbing his face and then would get blood in his eyes and then he would scream even more. After a few minutes of getting cleaned up, getting a band-aid and some love he was as good as new! We continued on to a place called Jarvi Historic Ranch. We actually found out while we were at the refuge place that there was some type of festival going on in Jarvie with food, crafts, games and a horse carriage ride. We couldn't pass on the opportunity to check out the horse ride! We got a hot dog and then waited for our ride on the horse drawn carriage. Jack was in heaven being so close to the horses!

Our final destination was to Flaming Gorge where we crossed into Wyoming for a few miles. We were able to see the Flaming Gorge dam and cross over another bridge.....this one not quite as old or scary! We drove a total of about 130 miles that day.....there is about 180 miles from Vernal to Salt Lake. The boys did great that day....hardly any crying or fighting and Ava did fabulous also. I only had to feed her once and she slept and was just happy hanging out in the backpack ! We had so much fun as a family that day....we are hoping to see some of our beautiful surroundings soon!