A Botched Birthday

Don't you hate it when you plan something really awesome and it goes to pot? So my mom was coming into town to visit, so I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to take somewhere over night to celebrate his birthday. It was a surprise. We tried to get some friends to go with us but schedules didn't work out so I had to settle for a day date. We started the morning going mountain biking (our new favorite pastime that might keep us in pocatello forever) It was awesome. Dave and I have a blast doing that together. Then I spent the night before making tin foil dinners and getting snacks and fishing licenses. After biking we went on our way to an awesome day of fishing and smore roasting and visiting with our good friends. We met them in Burley and they took us to this gorgeous camping spot a nice little lake. It was really busy so we decided to walk to the other side of the lake. We were there maybe fifteen minutes and all of the sudden we could see rain move across the lake. We didn't want to go back to the car yet in case it stopped so we took cover under some trees. The rain started to get worse and worse until it turned into hail with no sign of stopping. I couldn't believe how hard it was hailing. It started to let up a little so we decided to take a chance and run back to the car. Big mistake. It was hailing so hard it was pelting our heads, feet, and arms, it hurt. We finally made it to the car and ending our fifteen minute trip to the lake. On the way back down our car started to overheat so Dave was flooring it to make it down the hill and then our car started to smoke so we had to pull over and but coolant in it. We found out the smoke was from Dave riding the brakes to hard. It was quite memorable. We ended up cooking our tin foil dinners at our friends parents house in Burley on the grill. It still turned out to be a great day.