singing of you, singing of Idaho

Richard had a couple days off work so we headed for the hills. We camped at Bull Trout Lake, near Stanley and the majestic Sawtooth Mountain Range.

I wondered about the wisdom of taking a seven-month-old camping, but she was a trooper. Aside from eating a little sand she caused us no trouble.

The only misfortune of the weekend were the mosquitos. Despite frequent and liberal applications of mosquito repellant the bite-count came out as follows.

Mira: 0 (As far as we could tell.)
Richard: 2 (How?!)
Cameron: 12 (Not bad...)
Jo: 22 (They have always loved me.)
Eli: 1,472 (Too apathetic to swat them away.)

Eli and I just have that tasty blood I suppose. Most of his bites were on the first day so thereafter I was a little bit more strict about wearing a hat and covering as much skin as possible without inducing heat stroke.

3 comments:

Laura said...

Beautiful! We all need to do a camping trip soon.

Anne said...

Fun! We're going camping this weekend and hopefully, the mosquitoes will still be full from eating up you, Eli, and Cameron!

Joleen said...

Cameron showed me all of the ones on his head, and that looked bad...poor Eli must be covered!!!