Laramie, Wyoming

Last weekend Nate and I made the trip up to Laramie, Wyoming to visit an old mission buddy of Nate's. Laramie is about a six hour drive from us and boy is it scenic, not! Fortunately the drive was made better by having a good travel companion. Nate and I left early Friday morning and got to Laramie a little after noon. We got checked into our hotel and then headed to see his mission buddy Rowdy. Rowdy is a big into the outdoors so he wanted to take us ice fishing. We packed up and headed to the reservoir and the boys got out to set up the tent on the ice. Unfortunately it was so windy that the tent broke, Nate's glasses flew off and got lost, Rowdy lost his favorite hat and bucket that held all the ice fishing poles. Talk about drama on the ice! So we headed back to town without fishing and on our way back we got a flat tire. Luck was not on our side that afternoon. After visiting for a while, we headed to dinner. Nate decided he wanted to do a spicy wing challenge for dinner. 12 of their hottest wings in 12 minutes, you had to eat one wing per minute, no water, no nothing. I was dying when they brought the wings to the table, holy smokes, the smell alone was overwhelmingly hot. Nate made it five wings before he called it quits. Fortunately they provided gloves for the challenge so his hands didn't burn, but he said his lips, tongue, and throat were all on fire. He had some milk to drink to try and cool his mouth down. He also decided we needed to go for ice cream after dinner too. After dessert we went back to Rowdy's house and played games with him and his wife. Nate and Rowdy were set to go ice fishing early Saturday morning, however Nate got super sick during the night from the wing challenge. I thought for a little bit that I was going to have to take him to the ER. He rallied though and was finally able to fall asleep, but he cancelled on ice fishing. I feel bad, fishing with Rowdy was a big part of the reason for the trip and they didn't get to fish at all! Oh well, you can definitely say that things didn't go as planned on our short trip, but it was definitely memorable to say the least! After a short visit with Rowdy and his family Saturday morning, we headed home. It was a nice little getaway and it was good to see friends. 'Til next time!

Even though I brought my camera, I only took iphone pics. Oh well.


Here we are bright eyed and bushy tailed to make our 6 am departure time.



Nate in the midst of the wing challenge.


Um, is this not the coolest name for a street ever?!


Mission buddies.