Huckleberry picking

The boys went on a scout camping trip over the weekend.  There are 12 deacons in our ward.  They went up to Island Park and camped, and then went on a canoe trip.  They had a lot of fun.  While they were gone our neighbor asked us if we wanted to go huckleberry picking with them.  We said yes.  We drove for about an hour before we got to our spot somewhere in the Targhee National Forrest.  Heather our neighbor showed us what we were looking for.  Huckleberry's are small berries that remind me ob blueberries, only a lot smaller.  We didn't find a lot of huckleberries.  We were able to get maybe a handful.  We did have fun though.  We learned that we should have gone a few weeks earlier. 

 The weeds were as tall or taller than Adalyn.  She was such a trooper.  She didn't complain once about being in the forest.

 Isaiah was great at finding huckleberries.  I would hear him ask Heather, "Is this one?"  We had to be careful that we didn't pick the berries that would make us sick.  She was amazed at how easily he found them.

Haylea had fun too.  She would find some huckleberries.  We followed Heather and got lost in the woods.  OK.  We didn't get too lost.  We did find our car.

After picking berries we stopped and fed the trout.  Isaiah would find the food on the ground and would throw it to the trout.  It reminded James of Roaring River.

We then went to a grocery store to get some huckleberry ice cream.  While there we ran into Beth Higginson Day and her family.  What an odd place to see someone from Joplin.  We sat and visited with their family.  They were passing through from Twin Falls to Yellowstone while on their way back home.  It is amazing where you can run into someone you know.  By the way the huckleberry ice cream was delicious.