Naked and Afraid: Anniversary Style

Nathan and I were sitting in our living room talking about what we need/want to do over the summer and comparing work schedules when we realized our 2-year anniversary was coming up quick. 

So, what did we decide to do to celebrate this wonderful time? Camping of course! 

Nathan proposed the idea of filming our own episode of "Naked and Afraid", but we settled for kayaking and disk golf this time around.

So, we grabbed a neon green tandem kayak, a box of matches, some Nutela, and our frisbee disks and hit the road. 

Carlos made it up the mountain and back like a champ. So proud.

We decided to camp right in between Jackson, Wyoming and the Grand Tetons--and when I say "camping", I mean camping. You know, tents, bugs, dirty feet--the works. 

Did I mention that we totally love it?

Look! Our first tent!

I have always, always, ALWAYS loved camping. Anything and everything outdoors, really. 

However, until this weekend I had never been camping with Nathan before. 

If you ever have the opportunity to go camping with this man, you will quickly realize that he is by far the best person to ever go camping with. Not only is he great with directions, the fastest tent-setter-upper ever, and looks mighty fine in hiking gear, but he is the ultimate guide. No joke - when we're driving from place to place, he's got these eagle eyes that can spot animals that most mortals, muggles, and average folk cannot see. Not only does he spot out animals, but he is basically a walking, talking encyclopedia that can tell you anything and everything there is to know about that animal, plant, or ecosystem that this specific animal belongs to. 

...so hot.

For example, when we were on our way back to camp, Nathan and I were in the middle of talking when out of nowhere Nathan says, "Oh, look! A moose!" I pull over and this moose is probably half a mile off the road, across the river and in the middle of some stupid-tall grass. What the--how the crap did you see that?! He then proceeds to tell me all these incredible things about moose and where this particular one probably came from and so on.

My husband is the coolest.

And I digress.

Our anniversary weekend was a blast. We did lots of fun things together. 

First, we went disk golfing at Targhee's 18-hole course where Nathan kicked my butt and scored 2 blue disks that he found in a tree. He used broken tree branches and chucked huge logs up into the tree for a solid 30 minutes to retrieve (re-tree-ve... get it...?) these disks since this particular pine tree was unclimbable. He was wearing a tank top throughout this whole process so I really had nothing to complain about. In the end, he found success.

Next, we decided to kayak across Jenny Lake

We found our own little nook that we could hide our very difficult to see neon green kayak.

Once we got across Jenny lake, hiked a grand total of 9ish miles in the magical land of the Grand Tetons.

"Girls are mermaids..." -Kid History

That rock never looked so good.

We took lots of breaks.

After our hike, we kayaked back across the lake and practically sprinted to the closest set of showers possible. And by "sprinted" I mean, we walked as fast as our noodle-like legs and arms could carry us.

I have never felt so happy after having showered in my entire life.

 After our scrub down, we headed back to camp and made some din-din: hotdogs!

Nathan and I may have spent about-eh-4 hours entertaining ourselves with the fire by finding anything and everything we could to toss into the fire. Yes, we play with fire because WE'RE ADULTS, MAN. 

That same night, we had a couple visitors walk through our camp area. Say hello to Mama Moose and her baby, Baby Moose.

I am very aware that this is probably the worst picture on the planet but it's all I got, ALRIGHT?!

Next morning, we packed up camp (in the rain) and headed home! T'was a very fun trip.

Oh, but it has been an even better two years! And to think that the fun is barely getting started!