Weekend in the Woods

The gang before we headed out. Most of the kids are in the Ranger.

On the way back...the two little girls on the end are asleep, as well as Landon in the front seat.

We spent this last weekend in the Ozark mountains with some good friends and their children. One of the families has a cabin way up in the wilderness that is attached to lots of forest service roads. These are fun to ride...if you have a good 4 wheel vehicle. That's where the Ranger comes in! We hauled it up there and rode around most of the day Saturday. We got muddy, wet and just down right dirty, and everyone had a ball! We cooked hot dogs by a waterfall, made our own pizzas that night at the cabin while listening to bear stories, and got up early Sunday morning for another drive up the mountain before heading home. Geoff has had the most fun making videos of the unfortunate demise of one of the vehicles taken along (it got stuck and then flooded and had to be towed back to the cabin by the Ranger), and the kids have good stories about all the "daddy long-leg spiders and the hike by the bear bait"!