"The Mountain"

Jessica's grandpa and his brothers own a piece of land in Idaho affectionately named "Grandpa's Mountain." Each Memorial day weekend is spent camping on this beautiful piece of ground, and enjoying the company of family.

I was lucky enough to be invited to this wonderful place by Jessica, and we spent all day Saturday with her family. We were cold, wet, muddy, and had a wonderful time.

The morning was cloudy and it started to drizzle on the drive up. The morning was cold and rainy too, so we passed the time in "Grandma and Grandpa's" camper putting together puzzles.

Someone had a set of three Thomas Kinkade puzzles that we began work on. The first one was 100 pieces and was finished pretty quickly with 6 people working on it. It was then that they made it known that these puzzles were GLOW IN THE DARK! How rad is that? We then concocted several ideas to try to see it, because we didn't believe them.

At this point I must tell you about my wonderful discovery as I got ready this morning. My hair fits into a ponytail again! It was an exciting and welcome discovery and completely made my day! Growing out your hair really does work.

We then began the 300 piece puzzle, which took longer, but was still moderately easy. Then Taylor got a wonderful idea--we needed a coat! The glow-in-the-dark was clearly visible underneath. Score!

The next puzzle was 500 pieces and took us probably 3 hours to finish! It was a monster! We were thoroughly exhausted of puzzles afterwards, but we did indeed finish.

We had some delicious fajitas for dinner that were spicy, but kept us warm during the short span we were away from the fire. We spent the rest of the time sitting around the amazingly warm fire and making sure our clothes smelled enough like campfire to witness that we had indeed been camping.

When it came time for goodbyes I felt like it was my family we were leaving, they were so kind and welcoming! It was a fantastic day, thanks Jess!