Antelope Island

Now that Chad isn't going to school full time, we get to have a little free time every once in awhile.  Chad works 9 hours every day and so he gets every other Friday off.  Which is great!  We're able to get stuff done around the house and do something fun. We've decided that once a month we're going to go do a family activity and go out and explore where we live a little.

This past Friday, Cowboy didn't have school and it was Chad's off Friday.  So we made the best of it and decided to go to Antelope Island on the Great Salt Lake.  I grew up here in Northern Utah but have never actually been there.   It's about a 30 minutes drive from our house and for 9 bucks the whole family got to do something fun.  My Dad also has Friday's off so we invited my parents along on our little adventure.

We drove around the island for a little while in search of wildlife.  They have a few hundred buffalo, some antelope, coyote, and a lot of different types of birds.  We managed to see quite a bit of it.  I almost ran over the one coyote we saw.

Buffalo out on the lake bed.

Grandma watching buffalo with the boys.

Watching buffalo from afar.  Very afar.

We went on a little half mile hike up to the top of Buffalo point.  Chad had to carry the stroller in a couple of spots before we abandoned it all together on the side of the trail.  The boys practically ran up the hill as we chugged along behind them.

At the top of Buffalo point.

Mooch pointing at a buffalo.

At the top of our hike the boys declared themselves Kings of Antelope Island. It included a song and a dance and a lot of "oh yeah!"ing.

At the top of Buffalo Point.  There were a lot of cool big boulders.

Little T chilling at the Ranch on the south end of the island.  They've turned the Ranch into a little museum with a lot of old Farm equipment and other things.  The boys had fun running around and roping a fake calf.
As my Mom and I were walking around, Mom barely missed stepping on a snake.  I screamed like a little girl. Literally.

We had a fun day and definitely enjoyed our time together as a family.