This week we took an Olsen family vacation up to Island Park, Idaho. When you hear Island Park, you may think of water sports and splish-splashety fun. Well, you'd be sorely disappointed ... yes, even in mid-June. The temperature averaged at about 55 degrees and it rained half of the time. And now that I've set the scene, I should mention that it was uber fun! We brought our mountain bikes up, and apart from my stupid bruised shin caused by my inherent try-stupid-tricks personality, it was a great ride.

Island Park is very close to Yellowstone, so we spent one day driving into the park to see Old Faithful and a few other sights. That old geyser should have been called Old Rainful that day! It was raining the whole while as we waiting, but just as it was time to see it erupt, it started pouring. And since we're on that note, Ruby wet her pants in the car just minutes before, and all her clothes became contaminated ... a separate geyser story we probably don't want to get into right now. But at the end of the day, it was a great tour of a beautiful part of the world.

The World Cup started while we were up there and we just happened to be at a super-nice cabin (thanks Herm and Norma!) that had satellite TV, so we gathered to watch the US vs. England yesterday and were pretty happy to see us tie the game ... especially since the one US goal was partially due to a foolish error on the side of the English team. Wahoo!

Hippy recipe of the week:

Orange-Almond-Vanilla Grawnola (http://goneraw.com/recipe/orange-almond-vanilla-grawnola

A combination of orange, vanilla, almond, cinnamon with a batch of sprouted buckwheat makes this grawnola a yummy breakfast treat. I am a big fan of grawnola, although I don't make it as much as I'd like to. Buckwheat is such a nice and light grain, especially when sprouted, and the orange-vanilla combination really highlights the overall flavours of the recipe. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1/4 cup sprouted buckwheat (soaked overnight, sprouted for 1-2 days)
juice of 1 orange
leftover orange pulp can also be used, chopped
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup almond pulp (leftover from almond mylk)
1 tbsp agave syrup
1/2 tsp cinnamon
handful of sliced almonds

Preparation:

Combine ingredients in a bowl and dehydrate for 4-5 hours. Serve with nut mylk of choice or as a topping for banana soft serve (I served mine with some sumptuous blueberries).

Here are a few photos from the week: