When Andy and I were first married and still in college, one of our favorite things to do was to play frisbee golf (disc golf). It was fun and relaxing, and we could just walk and talk as we played the game. So last weekend, we decided to take the family to enjoy the fall colors up in the hills...and to enjoy a good game of frisbee golf. Most people know that Bogus Basin is a great place to ski in the winter. We've had some great times night skiing there with our older two kiddos. But what most people don't know, is that there is a very challenging Frisbee golf course at the upper lodge on the back side of the mountain. Oh ya...we love it. We call it "Extreme Frisbee."
In order to prep the players for the game...we had a mountain picnic lunch...with chicken fingers and all the sauces, and chocolate chip M&M cookies from the Albertson's deli. Yum.
In honor of the game, Taylor wore his Superman shirt. He is standing on one side of a black diamond run near the top, and throwing the Frisbee across and down to a small group of trees near the bottom. The trick to this game is to have a spotter...because in this terrain, it's really easy to lose your Frisbee. Or, you can just wear a Superman t-shirt so that you have x-ray vision and superhuman strength.
Matthew spent about 30 minutes searching for his Frisbee. And while the boys were throwing and then searching for their Frisbees, I was helping the girls to spot the next hole. This is a full 18 hole course. We've been up there several times, and haven't yet been successful in finding all 18. We usually quit at 4 or 5...and that usually takes us several hours of playing time...which means several hours of hiking up and down and across and around ski runs.
Here's Lainah taking a break under a tree! She was so cute. Her throws would go about 10 feet, unlike Andy's and Tay's which would go several hundred feet. However, Lainah never lost her Frisbee.
Us girls were loving the fall colors. It was the perfect autumn day, warm enough for shorts and t-shirts but not too hot to hike around in the full sun.
We made it to hole number 4...and then Andy made one amazing throw from the top of the run all the way to the bottom, and it was going beautifully straight until a breeze caught it and threw it off course into the trees. We searched and searched but never found his YELLOW Frisbee. It sort of blended in too well.
Matthew had been sitting on the ground with a frown on his face, so Taylor sat down to join him. Evidently Taylor's frown was so funny looking that it made Matthew smile. Taylor's useful like that.
Little Addy hiked all over that mountain! She always had a big sister to help her too, which was so sweet. These two were trying to help Andy find his Frisbee. Addy kept saying, "Frisbee!? Where are you?"
I just loved the view...from here you could see out to Horseshoe Bend area and beyond. Here I am with Brooklynn, and also with Emma, who was my hiking buddy all day long. She was such a good baby, perfectly content to just snuggle up to me in her pack while I did all the work.
And here are the boys, doing what boys do best. In fact, I think that if Superman and Spiderman really were brothers, that they'd pretty much be doing the same thing as these two boys when asked to pose for a picture.
What is it about being up in the mountains that is so refreshing and re-energizing? I love it. Andy and I stood at this point for quite a while just looking out and breathing the fresh mountain air. And while we were enjoying the view...
Addy was busy being a silly little stinker down the trail behind us! I guess with all of that hiking around, she got too hot and needed some air conditioning! Once she had her pants down, she was perfectly happy and started singing "The Eency Weency Spider." Here she is singing "Out came the sun!!!" at the top of her lungs. She is so hilarious! I'm sure the squirrels and chipmunks thought so too.
As for holes 5-18...I guess we'll just have to save those for another day.
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