Mom & I

Ok I'm a little late on this one but i did want to just share some pics. The first of August my mom and I got to go to Lake Payette in McCall for 4 days. Mom rented a house for us to stay in which was 60' feet from the lake and only a corner away from the Pondarosa State Park. We spent a lot of time biking around the park which we got lost (yes lost) twice on the first day. To top it all off we rode for about 6 miles and I swear it was 80% up hill the whole time. But hey we burned enough calories to enjoy a nice piece of chocolate mouse pie that night.




This was a spot we found to go down by the lake on one of our hiking adventures to the Lilly Marsh in the state park. There were so many beautiful views of the lake.



That's us lounging on the beach. The water in the lake was so warm. We found a little strip of beach on one of our first rides that wasn't very busy, so that's were we went each night to take a refreshing swim. Before we left for our trip I did some digging and found a hot spring outside of a town called Donelly which was only a 15 minute drive from McCall. So we went there for one of the days and it was so nice. After you went through the town Donelly you took this road out to the springs which was such a beautiful drive. It snaked along a creek, pasture and some mountains. I loved it. At the hot spring there was a total of 6 pools and each one ran into the next. So starting at the top was the hottest pool which was a pure run from the spring so it was extremely hot. The water went down each pool and as it did the water got cooler then the last. Also they had this giant chess board. Watching the kids move the pieces was funny considering they were almost as big as them.






So before we left we did a little more downtown shopping and had brunch at the pancake house. Love that place. I like going through the Christmas house section and seeing all the cutie stuff in there. So we had a great time and looking forward to possibly doing this again next year. This time with the whole family so Ethan can play on the beaches and Kevin and i can rent a jet ski.