Camp Moose

This past weekend we went on our Ward Campout up by Coalville.  It was so much fun!!  We went up Friday evening.  After setting up camp and helping another family set up their camp, we had a ward "fireside" with camp stories and entertainment.  Some of the young women in the ward taught us a camp song about a moose. I don't remember the lyrics but it was really cute.  After the fireside with the ward we went back to our campsite and roasted marshmallows. We invited who ever wanted to, to come have some.  We also played Uno attack until about 12:30 a.m..  I think that is the latest (or earliest) my kids have EVER stayed up! Saturday morning we all woke up early. The men in the ward fixed breakfast. As were all sitting around waiting for breakfast, Cameron ran up to me all excited. He told me to "COME LOOK"!  I asked him what I was coming to look at and he told me, "There is POINTY thing over there and its REALLY big."  I was thinking it was some kind of rock or porcupine or something. I decided to go investigate with him. As I walked up to where Cameron had pointed and to where he was now entering, I noticed some BIG horns. At first I thought it was an elk and then as Cameron was getting closer it lifted its head. I promptly told Cameron to come back to me and not get any closer. Cameron had found a bull moose!!!  I have never seen one in person, just pictures.  It was definitely a magestic creature.  For the next couple of hours the moose became the ward campout attraction.  It would run off a little ways but someone would always spot it again. At one point as I was with some other ward members looking at it, it came within feet of us. I so wish I had my camera at this point!!!  I found out that the moose was actually only a couple of years old. I thought the thing was huge but I guess they get bigger! After breakfast was done and cleaned up, Kent was able to go look at the moose. (He was helping with breakfast)  He was able to snap a few pictures from his cell phone. I'm only posting one of them because you can't see him very well in the other. 

On the way up Friday night our van was giving us some problems. It was very close to over heating. Before we left on Saturday I told Kent to check the oil. It was EMPTY!  Kent left the kids and I at camp while he took the truck and went into Park City for some oil.  What an adventure. It delayed us from leaving about two hours. We sadly, ended up missing our nephew's endowment session at the temple. We were really looking forward to making it to that. After we finally got the car in working order, we left camp and headed to my mom's to get cleaned up a bit. When we came back out, the truck had a flat tire. Most of the tire shops were closing up at this point so it was fun trying find someone who would fix it for us. We finally arrived home around 9:00 p.m.!  It was a very exhausting day. I'm glad we got to at least have some fun up in the mountains during the first part of the day!  We are looking forward to next year's ward campout! 

The camp moose. (Dark spot in the middle of the picture)  The ward dubbed him as, "duh Moose"