The Albion Basin

Today I went with my mom to the Albion Basin.  The picture below is a sampling of what my mom and I took yesterday! I can not wait for the battery of the camera I am borrowing to charge!

I just love the Rockies! Rocky Mountain High!

  It was gorgeous. We hiked on the Cecret Trail and was going to go to the Lake (I really wanted to go) When we got .6 of the 1.6 miles there we took many pictures and my mom felt like she could not go more and I did not want to leave here there to finish the hike. We were sitting n the valley, taking pictures of each other and I took off my shoes to look like I was barefooted. My mom said we have some really great pictures of me. I am excited to post them. There are trails all over the Basin and the mountains were just stunning. The day was over cast and sadly my mom and I were hoping to get some sun but that really did not happen because it was so over cast. We walked back to the Basin area, although we did not go in the Basin, we were on the out skirts. 

   We decided to get more pictures of me and my mom in the meadow parts and I put my Camel back down on the ground so I did not have it on my back in the pictures. Little did I know that it was sitting on an ant hill.   I was taking pictures of my mom while she was in fields of Forget-me-nots. They are growing abundantly there and there were orange flowers and yellow daisies. It was just stunning. My mom and I were on the out side of the Basin for about 15 minutes in the latter part of our journey. All the while the ants were nervously scurrying, and I decided to sit down right where I put my Camel Back. I had no idea I was right on the ant hill and I looked down and saw these ants, rather big ones, yet black, all over my camelback. I said to my mom about how big they were and just then realized they were all over my shoes. I got up from where I was sitting and started swiping them off of me. 

 I walked away from the hill but they were still all over and I was trying to get them off my legs,and feet (even with my shoes on) when I said to my mom they were starting to bite me. My mom said "Black ones do not bite" I said mom they really are biting me. She then said "I am sure they will not bite as hard". When while I was still trying to get them off of me and some had crawled up my shorts and started biting my bottom, but I got some on my ankles and legs too! My mom started getting bites on her neck but she was not even sitting near where I was. "Ouch" she said and started swiping a couple off her neck. I said,"What happened?" She said I think "I am getting bit too". I said, "They don't bite as hard now?" and we laughed about it but I got a few bites on my bottom, and thought when I get home I will put bleach on them (because that is what you do when you get a bee sting or ant bites). 

   Well, I will post pictures later, but let me just say: Good thing that I have such a wonderful man! Because don't you think it would be just stupid and insane if I were to only say, "I got bit by ants on my butt today" and try to tell him what happened, but I got to "I got bit by ants today" and he would have said, "You should stay in USA..." and later n an email tell me that I would have to be naked and that he does not believe my ant bite story... Good thing I have a better man than that, right??!?! 

   I mean that would just be insane and nothing like my man to tell me that he does not believe me when I say that I was bit by ants. Not only that to say that it is good that I got bit by ants... That would be more insane right??? 

  I am so happy I have a great guy that would NEVER say that to me... And would laugh how much if he heard how I was sitting on an ant hill, and got tons of ants all over my feet and how funny would have been to see me trying to get rid of them. I will post pictures of my day with my mom in a few hours. I took so any pictures with me and my mom that my battery went dead and her memory card went full!!! What a day implanted in my memory with my mom!