Fly Fishing, Moose & Pie in the Eye (wow!)

Pie in the Eye for Frank!

Day 21

Frank's first catch & release
Frank and Casey went fly-fishing this morning and Frank is officially “hooked.”  After a lifetime of preferring sit-ups to fishing, he finally experienced the thrill and serenity of casting into a mountain stream, finding that perfect ripple in the water, and the catch/release of a Rocky Mountain Rainbow Trout.

Pickles hiking

In the afternoon, we all went on a hike at Grand Lake in search of the elusive bull moose.  We didn’t see one, but it was a fanstastic hike, complete with waterfall and open meadow (Frank was wishing he had his fishing gear!). 

At 6:30pm, we made our way over to Young Life’s Crooked Creek Camp where we were guests for the evening.  Wow!  It is 9 years old and absolutely gorgeous.  We had a delicious dinner (Carter & Brandt ate 9 bowls of banana pudding!) and got to participate in the “county fair” night – complete with a “pie in the eye” treatment for Frank and a water soaking for Casey compliments of our kids.

We stuck around for the “opera” evening entertainment.  Duke and Luke saved the camp from the gravel baron, J.R. “The Big Rig” Riggins. The highlight was the lip-sync number “Money, Money, Money.” Mr. Steve, the camp speaker, was Steve Chesney, who had been the speaker at Windy Gap in 1983 when Nancy was a Honda wrangler on the work crew.  Somehow, I seem to have caught up to him in age – how is that?!

We LOVE Young Life!