Museums

Yesterday, we stayed in the house for the day and watched TV. For dinner we went with Mom, Jim, JOhn, Barb and the boys to Applebee's. We were exhausted after a long day at the water park. So it was nice to relax.

Barb and I took all the kids today to Julia Davis Park to go to the Art Museum and the Discovery Center.

The Art Museum was much like the Zoo...disappointing. They really didn't have any old art. There was a lot of photography, some paintings, lots of lithograph and some sculpture but all of it was basically modern art. The kids played for a while in the kids play room. There are pics of that. However, the security guards were on top of us like flies. It was like they couldn't wait for us to leave, which of course stressed us out.

The Discovery Center was much like COSI. I even think they purchased some of COSI's exhibits when COSI closed. The kids had fun. Rowan and Nadine got to do a lot of make-believe and bubbles. JOurdyn and Andrew basically disappeared into all the different rooms. They all got to do a giant spirograph. There's also pics of that.

Afterwards, we took the kids to eat. We thought we would park downtown and walk to a restuarant. All of them were closed between lunch and dinner. So we piled back into the car and drove to the Olive Garden.

Barb has a wedding to go to this weekend. We already purchased an outfit last week. So we needed to get her shoes for the wedding. The just built a Shoe Carnival near the mall here so I took her there. I have opened her eyes to a new world of shoes!!!! I only purchased two pairs of shoes because there was a 30% everything in the store sale because of the grand opening. And they gave us an additional $5.00 off each pair. So I got a heck of deal!!! Definitely, one of the highlights of my trip! :)

Roaring Springs

Rob's on his way home

I have tons of pics to add. Yesterday we went to Roaring Springs Water Park. It's ten times better than Soak City. John didn't go. He wasn't feeling well. So it was our family and Barb, Andrew & Nathan. We stayed from about noon to 8 pm.

Nadine was non-stop. We bought her a life-jacket when we first got to Idaho because of all the swimming we would be doing. With it she is now swimming everywhere: all over Grandma and Grandpa's pool, all over the water park. Needless to say she was out like a light as soon as we got in the car last night.

Rowan took a nap at the park for about an hour in the shade. He's not so much into the water. He like the slides and the Endless River but wasn't really caring to be in the water. Except for what he called the "ocean". They have a wave pool. He absolutely loved that.

Jourdyn and the boys were also non-stop. They only time they stopped was to stuff their faces with either ice cream, pizza or nachos. She has some really nice tanlines. They were a little red last night but today are just tan. (She has her daddy's complexion.)

Rob, Jim and I got up at 4:30 this morning to take Rob to the airport. He is on his way home as I write this. The kids and I will be starting home on Sunday sometime.

Oh update on John's four-wheeler: Monday John and Rob spent all day out on the mountainside winching it up. They got it to level ground and now John has to figure out why it isn't moving. It starts but won't move. It is still in a spot that is unreachable by car or truck. So it really has to be able to move to get it to the road. Or he has to find another four-wheeler big enough to tow it. There's still alot of work ahead and a lot damage that has to be fixed.

I'll post the pics in a little bit. So check back.

A day on the Town

Make a Smilebox slideshow

I was supposed to get up this morning and go to church at my professor's church. My kids have been up every morning by 7 am (which would be 9 am at home) so I figured they would wake me up! Nope! It was the one morning that they all slept until 8:30 am. We needed to leave by then in order to get down to church in time. So we didn't make it to church today. Instead we went site-seeing.

Mom & Jim kept our kids and let Rob and I went out on the town. We started at Koenig Winery & Distillery, went to Nampa to see my school, then downtown Boise. We visited Tom Grainey's Pub and walked around downtown. (Sorry lots of the pics are vertical pics so you will have to turn your head to see them.)

I think when I get home I am going to make a video of all the pics from the trip. It will take some time but I'll try it.

None of the shops downtown were open because it's Sunday but we did get to walk around and see everything. It's a great town. If I lived here I would want to live close to downtown. It's nothing like Toledo.

We went to Boise State to see the blue and orange football field, however it is torn up. They are replacing it. After that we went to mom & Jim's and swam for a while.

We got back to JOhn and Barb's at about 9 pm. And are just hanging out now!

It was a great day! It's always nice to get out alone for a while!