Trek 2010 post 1

Hey all! We survived a week of sleeping in tents, waking up no later than 5am, long bus rides, and not to mention all the fun we had. I am breaking these trek posts up into days. So this is Trek post 1 day one, the following posts will be labeled the same way!

Okay, so the trek started off with a 14 hour bus ride from Caldwell, Idaho at 12:01 am. Our bus didn't get quiet until about 2 am, the again at 4am. Some buses took longer than that to get quiet!! I didn't take pictures of the bus ride seeing as how it was not my favorite part of the trip! Don't get me wrong, we had some pretty good laughs and made some pretty good memories. However, you try sleeping on a bus full of teenagers being 15+ weeks pregnant not the best times of my life. Anyway on with the show!

First off, this is my bucket! Everything I needed for 4 days had to fit in my bucket! Sometimes it all fit and sometimes it wouldn't!

Here is Travis nice and clean fresh off the bus! We weren't assigned to a family so we just put our stuff on any cart that was available! This is right before we hauled all of our stuff into camp at South Pass.

The one and only picture from my camera of the 2 of us! We were clean and smelled nice! Everyone was craving a shower by Thursday!


This is either right before or after we crossed the river 3 times! This was at the Sixth Crossing. The water was above my knees and it felt pretty good. This was the first day and this part of the trek was 5-6 miles long and included the Women's pull. Many of the women pioneers we often left to pull the cart by them selves, due to the death of their husbands and/or the Mormon
Battalion.

This was the first crossing. The carts were pulled through the river. The first crossing was a silent cross, to help us remember what the pioneers had gone through.
The subsequent crossings we were able to splash and have fun!


Waiting for our tun to cross.


Okay this ends day one. It was an incredible experience and we had a blast. Day 2 will come tomorrow.