#woodsatlibertylake

 Wednesday, July 30th! Ready to go!

Mark and Mom in front
Paige and Courtney in the middle
 and me in the way, way back - watching movies in the car.

 We drove to Dillon, Montana,
and stayed at the Best Western Paradise Inn.

Where we met up with Tony and his family.

Our first stop on Thursday was the center of the universe!
Wallace, Idaho.

Where we found this great space ship!

Madison, Courtney and Paige

(obviously Courtney was terrified)

 Paige ready to take off.

 Mark and a rooster.

 The girls.

 Courtney = Center of the Universe!

 The Woods.

Then we came upon Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

 And, oh my goodness, it was beautiful!

 

 It is also were we met up with Brett, Avery, and Nicholas. 

 Here are the Woods with their yacht! (I wish!)

 Mark and I 

Paige and Courtney

 Next stop - the Spokane Washington Temple.  

 Mikaela, Mercedes, Cyndi, Madison, Paige and Courtney. 

 Us.  

Them.

Tony being Angel Moroni.

Then we had dinner at Thai Kitchen. 

It was so, so good!

Friday, August 1, we were ready to ride the Hiawatha trail.

(I realize I could have done a better job with this picture but you get the idea.)

Here is the group of riders:

Front row: Rex, Julie, Tony

2nd row: Reed, Marissa, Courtney, Kyle, Mikaela, Mercedes, Cyndi

3rd row: Braeden, Esther, Mark, Lisa, Madison

4th row: Troy, Brandon, Paige, Jasen, JoAnn and Craig

They hauled our rented bikes to the trail head.

We found the right bikes.

Listened to the rules of the trail.

Posed for a picture.

Or two. (Uncle Rex - 78 years old!)

And got on our way.

Right into the first tunnel - which is 2 miles long

and dark and wet and cold.
And I am so hard core - I took this while riding my bike!

This is the other end of the tunnel.

This beautiful waterfall greeted us 

as we exited the first tunnel.

On down the trail.

I got dirty!

It was so beautiful.

So many pine trees.

Here we are on the edge of a cliff.

The trail goes through 8 tunnels and over 7 high trestles.

One of which you can see in the distance.

This is on one of them.

Family picture.

This is looking off one of the trestles.

It was so beautiful. The picture can not do it justice.

Looking straight down from a trestle.

At the end we had to wait for a shuttle to take us back to our cars.

Tony taking a family selfie.

Here comes the bus!

Tony in his durag.

Our group took up almost the entire bus.

Then the reunion started for real.

Dinner and reminiscing, Brett started us off.

Mom and Uncle Rex

Aunt Deanna

Steve (obviously I have some work to do i.e. learn to focus the camera)

Corie

(Can you see his object lesson off to the side? Yes it is a cattle prod!)

Aunt Judy

Uncle Rex

Saturday we split up into teams and played a lot of fun games.

I think maybe Brett was hindering this team - just sayin!

Craig planned the games. And he did such a great job!

Madison

Mark

Madison

Paige

Now my girls want to own a double-decker bike.

"Look Ma, no hands!"

In the afternoon people started to leave like

Brett and family.

While others relaxed like Mark.

We also got to go to Liberty Lake.

I was too slow, the splashes you can see off the dock

are the girls diving in.

Cael on the paddle board.

Courtney on the paddle board.

Liberty Lake was beautiful

and fun!

 Back at Corie's - after dinner we had team awards

 for our teams performance at the games.

Here is a picture of Jasen doing some really great tricks
on the trampoline - because I think it is a great picture
and because Jasen was such a great host!

Then each team did a skit with our prize.
(this prize was bubbles)
Paula, Brandon, Mark, Paulette

 (hula hoops)
Sheryl, Esther, Courtney

 This is the end of the hula hoop skit with Courtney
jumping through the hoop!

 (jump ropes)
Aunt Deanna, Julie, Troy, Jacob

 and Marissa

(whistles)
Kyle, JoAnn, Amber, Michael, Paige, Cyndi, and Uncle Rex
I did not photograph all the teams skits.

Here is Rex with his prized plunger!?
Then we took some pictures of the families that attended.

 Marissa, Esther, Braeden, Rex
Brandon, Kalli (Jessa), Troy, Sharon (Savannah), Jessica (Brielle), Reed

 Steve, Sheryl, Paulette, Michael
Fern, Deanna, John

Amber, Paige, Courtney, Lisa, Mark, Paula, Kyle, Jacob
Cael, Madison, Scott, Lorna, Mikaela, Mercedes, Aren

Craig and JoAnn
Since I did not take a picture of the Oviatt family
I am attempting to find picture of all/most of them.

Our wonderful hosts Corie and Barb

Uncle Jack 

 The Aunts
Judy, Karen, Deanna

 Julie and Kyle

I chose this picture because it had Uncle DeLynn in it
and Aunt Karen.
And because I think it is such a great action shot!

I may have to do a follow-up post or something when I get
the actual Oviatt group shot.

We had such a great time
at Liberty Lake with those who could attend the reunion.
And missed all those who could not.

Thanks again to the Oviatts!!!

Craig, Corie, Barb, Jasen
Lizzy, JoAnn, Aunt Karen, Uncle Jack, Julie, Kyle

Already looking forward to 2017!