Labor Day

I came over to my parents for the weekend and found these pics on my parents camera. Over Labor Day weekend we helped Josh put in his yard at his new house. It was long hours, and we were hoping to get to do something fun for Labor Day so we needed somewhere close to have a good time. We had heard of a place called Skinny Dipper not to far away, near Horsebend so we headed that way with Bryn and Luke and my parents. It's a natural hot spring some people turned into soaking tubs. We had heard people go in naked, but others told us that's not true and people just said that because of it's name. So we thought we'd try it out so we'd have something fun to do, and soaking in hot water after working so hard in the yard sounded fabulous. It's a good climb into the hot springs from the road. We started way down there by the water.

Picture of us back at the cars, and YES there are naked people there. Most people were wearing bathing suits but a few 65-75 year old men were naked. My kids are young enough they didn't even notice. I thought it was so funny, my mom was uneasy the whole time which made it even better. And the best story of the night --- We stayed so late that it had gotten dark on us and as some more young girls were coming in, and we could tell they would be "putting on" their birthday suits, we started to head out. My mom gets scared going downhill anyway, and we didn't bring headlamps. So, as she admitted her nervousness out loud to us, one of the naked guys got out of the tub and walked over to his clothes. He turned to me (unfortunately, I had gotten out of the tub only second earlier where his clothes happened to be) and said he had a flashlight we could take - just leave it on his car at the parking lot and he reach out to hand it to me. Let me just say I did it for my mom. I walked over to him keeping my eyes focused on his EYES the whole time and thanked him ('cuz that was super nice of him) When we got to the car my mom was freaking out that I had just so nonchalantly walked over to get the light (How else was I supposed to do it? Start giggling? because honestly inside I was!) I thought it was awesome and such a funny memory to have, but I think next time we'll find some other hot springs.