Green River

Another one of our favorite weekend getaways is floating the Green River. It flows out of Flaming Gorge, and is beautiful. This was our first time taking Zoe and she had a blast. Zoe loves the water and had so much fun splashing around. She would want to just walk out farther and farther in the water, and didn't like that I was holding her back.

On Friday when we got there, Tyler and his parents, brother Cody, and nephew Milo were just getting off the river. We hung out and played at camp, went to the lake to fish a bit, and had some yummy river ribs. Milo was so fun and cute with Zoe. He was making sure that she had toys to play with, and even gave her his "girly" toy he got from a happy meal or something.

When we went to get on the river Saturday, Zoe was not thrilled with the whole life jacket idea. She has always been a little claustrophobic since she was a baby, never wanting to be swaddled or cuddled too tight, always likes her space. So she really put up a fight. We decided to just stick her in her car seat, and she did a lot better. That way we were able to keep her shaded, and she napped well too, I was completely shocked at this. Now that she is walking and getting around so well, she is not a big fan of the car seat, but did really well on the river. We would show her some of the fish we got, and she would just ooohh at them.

We did this 2 days in a row and she had fun both days. On our way home for the last 30 min or so she was done. Really wanted out. Thank goodness Mike rode with me and he was able to entertain her and get her snacks. Once we dropped Mike off, she was really not having fun, so for the next 20 min until we got home, we played the "What does the ____ say" entering and animal and then saying the noise. I probably repeated each animal I could think of a dozen times, but it kept her entertained for the last little bit, what a good little sport!

 This was really cool, never seen a deer cross the river before!