Featherville

Last Thursday after work Tarbet and I had a lot to do to get ready for our trip to Featherville for the weekend.  We borrowed a trailer from the shop and loaded up the Rhino then went to load up Scotty and Lacey's bikes.  That was a trailer full and they strategically fit on it! 

Trailer Full!

Friday we took off of work and had everything loaded up and ready to go, we just stopped by Hill and got the pickup fueled up and bought ice...something like ten bags of ice.  The main reason for all the ice....Tarbet has a fetish with buying coolers, three in the last year and I'm not talking just a simple cooler-I'm talking the best 6-day-Extremes.  When we were grocery shopping at Walmart the night before, we hadn't even made it to the food side of the store and we had to go get a second cart because of this thing.  When we were walking through the store a man made the comment to us, "That is going to hold a lot of beer.  I say that because I have one too!"  Well it does and it did.  We both made the comment and laughed that it's going to be a good trip when your beverage cooler is twice the size of your food cooler.  We might just have to start bagging our own ice to make it affordable to fill that sucker.  Anyways, after that stop we were headed out of town!  Can you believe it?  Tarbet's phone was off for two whole days....AMAZING.

This tree was huge so I made Tarbet stand there to get his picture taken.

 Once we got there we found a spot to stay, hit up the Featherville Saloon and waited for Scotty and Lacey to get into town. That night was a blast! After I got reprimanded for driving off trail by some major hard ass camp hosts, we made up some awesome steaks and baked potatoes on the camp fire while the guys went and found some firewood. Lacey and I busted out the margaritas in a bucket, music....and eventually some sombreros that were in her Yukon. Why does she have sombreros in her Yukon you ask...."because you just don't know how much fun you can have until you're in a sombrero."

You know you're jealous....you wish you had a sombrero.

Dang boy won't stay in bed :)

Briggs was ready for bed after that party :)

 The next day we went riding and came back a dirty mess.  There is not a whole lot of riding places there but we love to take the bikes so we went down the road to Baumgartner and Big Smokey.  It was so hot we played in the water some then the boys went fishing.
 

Tarbet's fishing attire

We drove around town and went to visit Dave and Cathy Gentry who live up there in the most beautiful cabin.  Oh wow, I was so excited to go inside and see how it looked it is so nice!  That night was another delicious dinner in the dutch oven and then relax time. I took a bath in the river, which surprised everyone when I disappeared for a min then came back wearing new clothes and a towel on my head. Damn it was cold but hey I wasn't the one complaining the next day of how bad I wanted to take a shower now was I?!
 

We loaded up and headed home on Sunday.  Those 3 days off sure went by fast which is kind of depressing but it was a good trip overall.  I hope we can make it back to Featherville next year, it is beautiful up there!