The Dennis Life

Well now that I have the hang of this, I’m going to put up some of our pictures from our family vacation last summer in July 2006. We started our adventure in Scottsdale, Arizona at Cheryl and Tex’s house. Cheryl is Michael’s sister and Tex is our new Brother-in-law. Jeff, Cheryl’s son, and Kurt, Michael and Cheryl’s brother, joined us in Scottsdale and we all went adventuring to the Grand Canyon where we had a wonderful time!

We said goodbye to our Arizona family and made our way to Jackson Hole, Wyoming and the Grand Tetons.

And then on to Yellowstone National Park. You’ll see from our pictures that we really got a lot in while in Yellowstone. We can’t wait to go back! After Yellowstone we went to Hells Canyon and took a rip-roaring, high-speed boat trip down the Snake River. Unfortunately, I lost all my pics from Hells Canyon, but that’s OK, we’ll be going back one day and sure to get some more.

Finally, we ended our three week adventure in Portland, Oregon, where we spent time with our sweet Oregon family, my sister Gail’s children and grand-children. We spent part of one day at the Portland Rose Garden and unfortunately those pics were lost along with the Hells Canyon pics. We also spent one day at the Portland Zoo. We spent wonderful family time with nieces, nephews, cousins and second cousins…

Spencer was our navigator and marked our path through the West on a map that he was able to use for Boy Scouts toward one of his badges. Definitely the best of all worlds, great time with family at the bottom and top of the West and fun, family adventure in between at our Nation’s best-loved National Parks. What could be better than that!!?! So, things were accomplished and fun was had by all…we had the dream vacation of a lifetime!