How to tell when you’re in Idaho…

That’s a Bambi in the back of that truck and yes, I realize I probably shouldn’t have taken the shot with my camera phone while driving (you can see the green light in the photo).

The trip to Idaho was great. Silverwood theme park is a bit larger than Enchanted Village/Wild Waves here and that’s about the only difference. Silverwood has a couple of coasters that were fun and some old fashioned carnival rides (the go rounder, scrambler, tilt-a-whirl, Ferris wheel, etc.) The only thing we didn’t like about the park was that the water park closed at 7pm. Had we known that, we would have been over there sooner than 5pm. We might be making another trip back next year and go for two days instead of one so we can be sure to get everything in.

Our hotel sucked big time. We’re staying somewhere else next year. The beds were small, old, and hard as rocks. My pillows were so hard my head was going numb and I can’t figure out how I was able to sleep.

We went out to Balanced Rock while we were there. I’m not much for the ooh-ah kind of attractions but if you get close to it you have to go at least once. We took my niece with us and the four of us climbed up to the base of the rock. I got some pictures but I haven’t had time to upload them yet. I’ll get those done soon. We also got some great shots of us at the swimming pool but if you want to see those you’ll probably have to email me. We’re not comfortable posting pictures of ourselves on the Internet thanks to exes and all. Seeing Grandpa was good again. He’s going to live to be one hundred I think.

Overall, we had a good time. The best $130 we ever spent was on the portable DVD player we picked up at the Super Wal Mart in Boise. Speaking of those, the rest of the family had never been to one so we hit the one Post Falls. You’d thought the family (except for me) had been thrown in the biggest candy store in the world. They were amazed at all the stuff they had. To me, it was just another Wal-mart.