Adventures of the Neeley Family: The Big Trip Part 3 and the rest of October

The last leg of our trip was spent in Idaho with our good friends, the Glenewinkels. Casey was able to fly in and join us for this part of the trip. The first day we got to check out the potato sheds that Dustin oversees. Zane got to learn all about the storage process and got to climb on mountains of potatoes.

watching the potatoes head into the storage shed

a storage shed full of potatoes(they are about 22 feet deep!)

Zane spent most days playing with Merit and riding around in his red truck.

Zane and Merit

Riding across the wheat fields

Always an adventure

There were many wrestling matches with the boys and their Dads.

Casey and the boys checking out a tank

My buddy Peter

One of the days we headed up into the hills to ride the four wheelers and look for wildlife. We saw a few deer, we were hoping to see moose, but no luck.

Dustin

Casey, Merit and Zane

Zane driving

On the last day of our trip we drove through Yosemite National Park. Zane and I decided we didn't want to do any hikes so we stopped for a few pictures and headed home.

Zane with El Capitan

After we got home Grandpa arrived to volunteer on a bridge rebuild at Hartland. Zane was excited to spend time with Grandpa and help with the bridge.

All the old decking removed

Zane helped carry out the new decking boards

Zane liked climbing under to pick up things that got dropped

Almost done

Dad and I saw a black bear in camp

Grandpa taught Zane how to build card houses

And how to knock them down with rubber bands and nerf guns

October brought the fall quilt retreat. At the spring retreat I was blessed with a wax fabric quilt kit. Wax fabric comes from Africa. It was lots of bold and bright colors and very fun working with a different type of fabric.

A close up of the 3 quilting styles I used

All finished

The back is also wax fabric

Casey and I were able to go on Zane's whale watching field trip off the coast near Ventura. We cruised through the Santa Barbara Channel and around one of the Channel Islands. We saw thousands of dolphins and one humpback whale.