Sunday, April 6, 2008

Weekend at Benson's Cabin



Friday night Ben and I went with our friend Brandon to the Benson’s cabin (Brandon knows the Benson’s from his home ward in CO). The cabin is in Driggs (about an hour from Rexburg) in the Teton Mountains. To call this a cabin would be an understatement; it is like the castle of cabins- with two kitchens, heated floor tiles, a walk around deck and imported furniture from Israel. It was beautiful. We decided that it would be a night for relaxation- so I took a bath.

Yes, it sounds weird but they had a HUGE bathtub with jets and bubbles. I am not really a bath person, but after that bath I have decided to join the realms of Ernie and Rubber Ducky. I felt like I was 4 again (although at the age of four I never had a bath like that). When we turned on the jets it mad the bubbles puff up…a lot. Ben thought it was hilarious and took pictures (don’t worry I was modest, there are so much bubbles I could be in an Eskimo suit and you wouldn’t even know).

When we woke up this morning the boys made a big breakfast (bacon, pancakes, orange juice and eggs) and we got ready to go to conference. After the first session we decided to drive up (in the jeep) to Jackson Hole, WY (only about 20 minutes away-over the pass) to explore. As we started up it was beautiful and so wonderful to be in the mountains, about half way up it started snowing- hard. We had no place on the narrow winding mountain pass to turn around so we had to press on. We got to Jackson and the boys decided that we should just turn around and go back- because they were worried the pass would close. So we got behind the gravel layer and followed it back over the pass- at times we could only see the blinking lights of the gravel layer through the blizzard (yes, and its April). We decided to go straight back to the cabin and listen to conference (which put me to sleep- ugg I know I am bad).
That night we watched movies (well I did while the men-folk were at the Priesthood session) and we played dominos all night (which made me feel like an elderly person in a nursing home- we were bad). We came home Sunday between sessions. It was so much fun to be up there and have a relaxing weekend.
Thanks Benson’s!!

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