Frist Day of Fall Semester 2009

First day of Fall Semester for Shawn-every semester I get a picture of him standing in that same spot in the kitchen with his backpack on a smile on his face...such a cute boy!

Ft Bridger Rendezvous

Back when Shawn and I were dating he told me about the Ft Bridger Rendezvous that he use to go to with his family in Ft Bridger Wyoming. I had always wanted to go since then-so this last Friday we headed up to Evanston to spend the night with Shawns dad and then the next morning Shawn and I and his sister Necha, her husband Josh, and their 2 girls headed east to Ft Bridger for the big event.
It was so crazy. There were thousands of people dressed up like pioneers, Indians, and mountain men. We were the odd ones out because we were dressed in normal street clothes. This is quite the event in wyoming-it is a 4 day event and people come from all over to re-enact the Ft Bridger fir trapping days. There were tons of fun booths everywhere and people sold everything from real animal firs and hats, arrow heads, and anything that would have been sold back in the pioneer days. We also go to tour the old fort and all of the buildings that were restored and still located in the fort. We also got to see an Indian show, we briefly learned how to trap beavers, and make nails, and we got to eat some roasted nuts and Indian fry bread.

Here is Shawn and I pulling the pioneer handcart...there was not much room in the handcart so we would have needed a couple of them.
Lots of fur hats-everything from skunk to fox, wolf, and raccoon
Most of the people that came out for the weekend set up teepees to stay in with their families for the 4 days-they were not messing around

Some crazy Mountain Men-I know that I exaggerate sometimes....but this is seriously how everyone was dressed

Shawn and I in front of one of the tee pee

A crazy man at one of the booths. Shawn bought me some buttons made out of animal bone to use in my scrapbooking

Shawn and I with some of the Indian dancers-it was a hot day too I cant imagine how hot they were with all that leather on

Shawn with a Wolf (or Woof as my mom says it) hat that cost $500

Shawn in a booth full of furs. There were thousands of furs everywhere that people were trying to sell-and all real too. I cant imagine what a crazy Oregonian enviormentalist or PETA would think if they were here to see it all.

We had a fun day-I am happy I went to experiance all the crazy Rendezvous days at Ft Bridger