Good morning world! While the girls seemed to sleep decently, they did end up rushing into Pierce's room and woke him up earlier than we would've liked. Also, this house is VERY hot at night, somehow, so we end up sweating quite a bit (and I'm not even a hot sleeper) so both of us tossed and turned quite a bit. It's still so nice to have my whole family under one roof. Pierce ended up eating a whole packet of oatmeal for breakfast this morning (normally he only eats half).
We headed over to Marie's around 9:10 (to get there around 10:15), she showed us around her new house (pretty cute, small place big enough for it being just the two of them). She was sweet enough to set up an egg hunt for the girls, who had a lot of fun. She made a yummy lunch of chicken nuggets, tater tots, fruit, and juice. After, literally, filling up on the food we headed out.
Our first stop was Ritter Island (about an hour drive, perfect for nap time), saw some small waterfalls, some small beavers, people climbing the mountain by the falls, did a small paved trail "hike", and took some pics. It was really nice weather and a nice place to stop and see. She then took us to some hatcheries nearby to see some really big fish and feed some small fish, but it ended up being a bit of a bust. The big fish had, apparently, retired to a nearby river so they weren't there and they took down the fish feed machines at the other place so it didn't work. It at least offered us a good potty break stop haha.
We then drove to Shoshone Falls (another hour drive). This place was SO beautiful! Like if you go to the Twin Falls area you HAVE to go to this spot! The falls were SO big and the sound was so pretty. Apparently, you can kayak to the falls and I so want to visit again to do that. We ended up taking a small accidental hike to this balcony spot (turns out there was a paved trail, but we didn't see it till we were close to where we were headed haha).
After being there for a little while, we headed back to Marie's for dinner. She made a yummy ham, rolls, corn, potato salad (which we called deviled egg salad to try and trick Cara into it since if she hears the "p word" she won't eat it) dinner with juice, ice cream, and homemade cheesecake. Again, we got so full! I love when Marie makes us food, she always has lots of options (sides) and we get so filled up.
After letting the girls play for a bit we headed back to the house (we left her house around 7 and didn't get back till 8) and then Larry and Pierce headed back home. I told him he's crazy for heading out so late, but he doesn't mind. I knew the girls probably wouldn't be ready for bed right away so I let them watch 1 show and then got them ready for bed. I'm going to miss having my boys here, but Larry has school work to do.
Now that they are down, I'm planning on watching Morbius (Larry wasn't interested so why not?). Maybe I'll read my book afterwards and just pass out haha. It was a great day today, we had a lot of fun, although I'm sure it might not have been as exciting for the girls, but I still enjoyed spending time with family.
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