Finally... the rest of the Idaho Trip

We took I-95 from CdA to Boise. This is a mostly two lane highway that goes south down the western border of Idaho. There were some really beautiful areas that we drove though, although the rain kind of dampened the view. After 8 hours of driving in rain we finally made it to Boise and picked up Kevin from his Lasik surgery. His doctor was near the mall so we went and had dinner at Old Chicagos. Paul was worried about finding a hotel so he worked on that while we waited for our dinner. We found a hotel, checked in and then tried to decide what to do for the rest of the night. Kevin couldn't do much because of his eyes so that got rid of most of our ideas, but we finally decided to go back to the mall and get some cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory. Kevin felt like a celebrity in his dark sunglasses... The next morning Kevin went back to the doctor and then we headed out to Craters of the Moon. We tried to go here last time we were in Idaho and Paul was still dying to go. He was very excited to see this geological site. Kevin and I were willing to go along. We were a little worried we were going to have a repeat of our last visit because we followed storm clouds the whole way there. It was a little rainy and cool but it was a free weekend for national parks so we didn't have to pay. Here are a few pictures of our 4 hour tour. In one of the caves....

Once we left Craters of the Moon we headed to Ketchum. It was Paul and I's 6th anniversary so Kevin took us out to dinner (Thanks Kevin!).

On the 21st we woke up and it was raining...again. We decided we would try a hike anyways. We headed up to a hike where we would see a couple of waterfalls. The hike started with pretty nice weather and then ended up raining. I took a little video that explains how the hike went but I'm not sure how to post a video. Pretty much it went like this: 7 snakes, steep climb up rocks, soaking wet feet and a river crossing. We made it home, dried out and then headed to Grumpy's. Grumpy's is one of Kevin's favorite places and we were hoping for live music BUT the rain stopped the music.

On the 22nd the sun was out!! So we headed up to Stanley. Kevin took us to the Red Fish Lake (is that right Kevin?) The scenery was beautiful. We made it to the hot springs near Stanley, emptied out enough of the hot water and added enough cool water to get in. After a little soak we ate at the bakery in Stanley and then headed home.

We left early on the 23rd for our 11 hour drive home. The ride home through Wyoming wasn't nearly as pretty as the ride up through Montana. We drove by a lot of wind turbines being put up. Good to see progress...