We've been talkin' bout Jackson

After our fun 4th of July sleepover we packed up the car and took Ecko for her first camping trip. I cant believe Ive had her for 4 years and this was her first trip.
There was a big group of friends going up to go down the river so we went up a little later to join them.
On our way, we stopped at our old stompin grounds and where we met 7 years ago. To our surprise there was a Camel on the side of the road. How random right?

It thought Russell's arm tasted good.

We took a canoe and our fishing poles to maybe do some fishing but it made for a packed ride for Ecko in the back. By the time we got there she had about had it.
We got there in the dark right as the fireworks were about to start. It was perfect!
We drove right into Teton Village and right as we were wondering where they would shoot the fire works from they lit up RIGHT next to our car. So we grabbed a blanket and pulled over and watched the fireworks right above us. Its was great. Poor Ecko about lost her mind, but we enjoyed ourselves.
Because we took Ecko I felt bad just tying her up for a couple hrs while we ran the river, so we did our own thing.
Here are a few of our friends that we got to see go down for a bit.



Matt joined us our own little adventure. We drove up to Jenny lake where we were going to go fisihing but the water was too rough. So we took a nice drive, saw a bear and the boys pulled over to stop at a few fishing spots.

She did so good on her first road trip

Matt & Ecko fishing

This is kind of a gross/funny story. But the boys were fishing and I was just sitting in a chair enjoying the scenery when I noticed I hadnt seen Ecko for awhile. I called her and called her and finally saw her not to far from me just rolling and rolling. She always listens to me really well so I didnt understand what was going on. I dont know if anyone Else's dog does this, but if Ecko doesnt like the smell of something...she will roll her body all over it. Well she found some human...do do and lets just say it was all over.
The boys were nice enough to give her a bath in the river.

We thought we saw a moose in the distance taking a bath in the river...

Turned out to be a rock. But it was still a pretty view.
We did see a bear off the side of the road though. I didnt get a great picture, but it was fun to see.
That night we had dinner at the very Delicious Bubba's.
Right as we finished dinner we were able to see another round of fireworks.
We then went to a new camp site with a few other people to get away from the big crowds. We roasted marsh mellows and woke up to a beautiful site!
Ecko was AWESOME camping. She just snuggled right on up in the tent. It was a big task trying to get Russ to let her back in the tent after rolling in human poop. But he gave in...we were both very grateful.

One of the guys camping with us threw up a slack line. Its a lot harder then it looks!

Some of us were better then others.

But we all had our fair share of falls.



Right up from our camp spot was fields and fields of sunflowers. It was beautiful!

We hiked up to a pretty waterfall.



The last day we met up with the group again for a super good, HUGE burger.
On our way back home the BF decided to take a scenic drive home which would take about 3 hours longer. Right when we were about to get off the dirt road back onto the pavement to start to make some headway, we ran into a bit of a problem.

An avalanche had wiped out the road. It was now 7 PM and had to turn back to go another way. It was a late night home, and super early Monday morning the next day, but it was a good trip!