Robison's Realities: Fun Weekend in Midway

The last weekend in September we were able to spend the weekend at my grandmas cabin in Midway for the weekend. We really love Midway, I would love to live there some day. But I don't think that will ever happen. We had a really great time and a much needed break from life.

There is a pond nearby the cabin that also has a playground. We spent a lot of time there fishing, playing and feeding the ducks. Kiara had all the ducks following her around and pretty much eating out of her hand. It was awesome!

Brennen took off to the other side of the pond to fish by himself.

That afternoon Jason and Brennen got up and went fly fishing on the Provo river.

While they were fishing Brennen was out in the middle of the river and looked up and a deer had walked up to the river to take a drink and was right in front of him. He was only about five feet away. Brennnen thought that was pretty awesome. He yelled "dad a deer" then that of course scared it away. :-)

Delma was so proud of her daddy when he brought back a big fish. He usually just releases them but this one had an injury.

The next morning we went to Strawberry Res. to see the salmon.

Smokey the bear was there, Delma was brave enough to give him a big bear hug!

After looking at the salmon we went to the marina to fish for Crawdads. We tied a chicken leg onto the end of a string and lowered it into the water by the rocks. The kids had a blast! We also had lots of other people around us bringing there kids over to check out what we were doing. We had extra chicken legs and shared with a few other people.

I had an interesting experience while fishing for Crawdads. I didn't do much fishing because I was keeping TJ happy. He was a little fussy so I went back to the parking lot to the truck for a few minutes to feed him. While I was there I saw a guy in an expedition and pulling a boat trailer try to park. He turned to sharp and hit the front of a truck with the back of his trailer. He scraped it up pretty good. He then got out and saw that he had smashed into the truck then got back in his truck and backed up and parked a few spots over. I got in my truck and wrote down his license plate just in case. He sat there for a few minutes then drove off. I really couldn't believe he did that. When we were ready to leave the owner of the truck that got hit still had not returned so I left him a note with the license plate number of the guy who hit him and with my name and number telling him that I was a witness. A few hours later he called me and was very thankful to me for writing him the note. He called the sheriff to report it and wanted to let me know the sheriff would be calling me. I talked to the sheriff a little while later and he ended up driving up to our cabin about 9:00 pm that night to have me sign a witness statement. The sheriff told us that the driver was going to get a $1,000 hit and run ticket plus have to pay for the damages to the truck. This was a really good teaching moment for our kids and we took the opportunity to explain to them why it is so important to be honest and that in the end you will get in less trouble than if you try to get away with something.

After the kids had enough of fishing for Crawdads we went back to the pond, since we didn't catch anything the day before. Kiara, TJ and I played on the grass while the others fished.

We finally ended up catching a few fish. Here is Kiara being silly with the one she caught.

The next morning before going home we went for a walk, it was beautiful! The kids saw several caterpillars and played with them for a little while but we had them set them free before we went home.