Run moose, RUN!!!

Spur of the moment we decided that this past Wednesday would be a good day for our family trip up the mountains to see the pretty fall leaves. We saw more of the beauty of nature than we had planned. We drove for a good twenty minutes up windy mountains and drop offs of the edge of them, through canyons and we were still in search of Cascade Springs, our destination. We came along a car parked on the side of the road taking pictures, I saw what he was taking pictures of. A huge rack, and then attached, a moose! Paul stopped the car and everyone that was awake was able to get out and see. There was not one, but two moose standing up off the road in the trees. The first was maybe thirty feet up in the trees, not paying much attention to all of the on-lookers that had stopped to take a peek.

Then just a little ways up the road a moose jumped in front of the van from the right side and ran in front of us for a minute and ran to the left side into the brush. We were trying to get the camera out in time to catch him running in front of the van but caught him running into the trees.
Right before the turn off road to Cascade Springs there were three fawns huddled together. They were moving away from us. So sweet, so amazing that we were able to see all this wildlife on our trip.

We made it to Cascade Springs!

I wanted to take a picture of them by one of the cascades. Right after this picture Alona was jumping around and jumped right in to the water. Thank goodness I had extra clothes :) She was quite cold.

While Alona was getting changed. I made good use out of the time I had with the other three children. I continued on and took pictures with them. Abbi's version of saying cheese does not include smiling.. it is a wide mouthed Cheese at the top of her lungs :)

Beautiful scenery along with the amazing wildlife
Great and much shorter drive on the way down.
It was a wonderful trip.
Thanks for the inspiration Michelle :)