Wylie's First Float

As a last hoorah of the summer, Wylie and I headed to Island Park with the Young Women. Okay, so maybe it wouldn't be classified as a hoorah, or definitely not as hoorah of choice for Wylie, but it was an outing nevertheless. It began with Wylie dragging his heals, and looking for a way to get out of it. But, as with most trips of this nature, that type of attitude was expected and didn't even phase me (Ben you know what I'm talking about - nothing like being volunteered to go on a trip with me!!). We headed out about 5:00 pm and got to our destination - Island Park - about 7:00. It was there we met up with 7 other leaders and 5 Young Women. Yes, the leaders outnumbered the girls, almost 2 to 1. Enough, that one might ask, who was this outing really for - the leaders or the girls?!! It might be a natural inclination to automatically feel sorry for Wylie, having to endure such a crowd. But Wylie wasn't suffering - 3 men that love to talk football and sports just as much as him, and one a Bronco fan just like him! Not to mention, plenty of cookies, pop, candy, and sugar to keep him content and wife too busy to keep tabs on him. Who knows how much sugar he consumed that evening!!! Enough to keep him entertaining the crowd with stories and movie one-liners till the wee hours of the night...or morning. The girls had to tell the leaders to keep the laughter down - they were trying to sleep!

Although, there was frost on all of the cars, the temperature warmed up enough Saturday for us to go on a float. Again, Wylie tried to get out of it. Something about not liking water, and almost drowning a couple of times is all he could come up with for an excuse. Again, not phased by the opposition, I convinced him to go by telling him he wouldn't get wet. We decided to float the Snake River from Big Springs to Max's Inn. After being plopped down in the middle of one of the rafts, Wylie took position on the back of the raft. It wasn't long before he assumed his position as captain of the raft, and before he had to hop out of it and push the raft over shallow spots....so much for staying dry! He secretly loved it though!! It was a beautiful float, we saw 3 moose and 1 Awspray. No leaches and Wylie never was dunked. All in all it was a success and Wylie liked it! I even dare say, he would do it again!