Montana

January 20, 2014

Dear Grandpa and Grandma,

     On my way to Montana I was finding out that it's very different from Iowa. On my way here we stopped at Nebraska and Wyoming for some breaks of sitting in a car. It took us 18 hours and 10 minutes to get up here, it seemed like we would never make it. My mom got a lot of antiques so our truck was loaded. My dad and I went to Cabelas and bought lots of traps, and a "How To Mount Deer" booklet, and looked at guns and mounted animals. After we got done at Cabelas we went to a State Park to see all the different wildlife and to learn about Montana. When we got ready the next morning to go bear, elk, and wolf hunting we found out that you could only shoot three bear. When we were done hunting we had one black bear that we were going to use as a rug at our house, we also got one prodigious elk, and that was all we got. Luckily when we got here it was the middle of shed season, so we finally got my mom to say yes to go with us, we found a whopping total of 26 sheds in just one week of being up here.

     Next Week

     After one long week of hunting and not seeing anything, we decided to try fishing. We went back to Cabelas and looked for fly fishing rods and jigs. When we went out I had noticed that my mom was wearing all pink and a yellow hat. We ended up catching 4 trout and 21 salmon. We had 19 of them wrapped for my grandpa and grandma. On our way home we stopped at a couple more stores for my mom to see the last of Montana. Next time we go on vacation we need to go some where warm.

Love,

Carter

My Christmas Vacation

     When I got home, I thought to my self this is weird. No more school, what am I going to do? The first day of vacation I went and hunted rabbits with my dad, I did that almost every afternoon until school. Between all of the rabbit hunting we went to a couple of stores with my mom.
     The next week of vacation my dad and I were looking for gifts that my mom would like for Christmas. We got her a lot of nice things, when we decided to open our presents it was Christmas Eve. When we started to open our presents it was after supper, I got a lot of cool things but my favorite thing was my main present, a 20 gauge shotgun.
   After Christmas, my dad and I worked around the shop sorting things out and playing with my dog. That weekend we went to Cabelas. There we bought some cool things like traps for crawdads, a gun strap, and some cashews. After that, it was the same routine shooting rabbits for my grandma and grandpa, and shooting birds for my cats.