Our Second Honeymoon in the most beautiful place on earth.

After our trip to McCall, Mike flew back up so he and I could leave the kids with his parents and take a trip together - a second honeymoon - a "we've been married for ten years and want a weekend without the kids" trip.  And it was perfect.  Stanley, Idaho is the home of the Sawtooth Mountains and it's beauty was mind blowing - and this is coming from someone who lives at the foot of some of the prettiest mountains around.  I wish my pictures did it ANY justice but they just don't.  Some day you've got to drive up and see those mountains yourself - you'll thank me.

This lake was so SO amazing - the water was really so clear - it looked like the Bahamas - only it didn't feel like it - it was a chilly 52 degrees.  Even with the cold, lake swimming is still my favorite thing in the world.   We canoed, we sun-bathed, we photographed.  It was heaven.

One night we ventured out to some hot springs a waitress at our RV park told us about - they were hidden just below the road - on the Salmon river.  Someone put an industrial pot of some sort there - and a pipe was coming right out of the side of the mountain with super hot spring water in it.  You could move the pipe over the tub to make it hotter or use a bucket to add river water to cool it down.  It was so amazing.  And then of course we couldn't resist dipping into the freezing river water and back into the hot...

And to finish of the trip more perfectly than anything else could - we went to the James Taylor/Carole King concert in Sun Valley.  Mike's second cousin, Raymond, called us several months ago and said he had some extra tickets and asked if we could make it.  It was such an amazing offer we designed this trip around it.  Not only was the concert amazing but if Raymond hadn't offered I'm sure we wouldn't have ever taken a trip along at all.  So thanks Raymond - we seriously owe you big time!  The venue said no camera's of any kind and I quickly realized once I got there that I was the only one who followed that rule... it killed me not to have my camera there but luckily Mike's phone came through...

Anyhow, in the end, GO TO STANLEY!  Or don't.   Maybe I'd like to keep it an amazing secret place just for me and my family.