A little bit of Heaven

When I told my Dad that I was moving to Minnesota the first two things he said were: "find me a great place to go white tail deer hunting" and "let's put together a trip up to the boundary waters".  I'm happy to say that I've now fulfilled one of the two requests, well sort of.  All the credit goes to some family friends, the Youngquists, who put the whole trip up to the boundary waters together.  My dad and I were just along for the ride. 


For those that don't know, the boundary waters are in the Lake Superior National Forest.  When you look at a map of MN it looks like most of the 15,000 lakes in the state are in this national park.  Needless to say, it was absolutely beautiful.  Our first night was spent in the International Wolf Center (the fact that my dad slept here is a story in and of itself...he's been looking for a wolf pelt).  Once on the lake we fished, canoed and listened to stories (when you get three grandfathers together that are full of great stories there's no stopping them).


Best part of the trip was the 10 hours I spent with my Dad driving to and from Ely, MN.  It was great to catch up with him and chat about our lives.  I'm really grateful for all that he's taught me in my life about the outdoors, his family, patience & understanding, supporting a family, the gospel and so much more.


Here are a few pics from the trip:

This was near our base camp...no cell phone coverage here!

This guy wondered into camp one evening...

  

This mosquitoes hauled him off at dark