Next we headed down through Idaho, Montana and back into south east Idaho to visit the lovely little Rexburg. Rexburg is the home to BYU-Idaho, the place where both Devin and I attended college. We have so many good memories of this little town and the school... it was nice to return and se all the changes they have made since it was little old Ricks College. My brother is there right now too, so it was nice to see him while we were there.
This is the Rexburg temple, something that was not there when we were. It is beautiful!
Rexburg temple at night. You can see the temple all the way from the freeway (which is pretty far) At night, when you come in on highway 33, that's what you see in the distance. It's wonderful!
We failed to get very many pictures on campus, but this is often how the kids were as we walked along. They love holding hands! They thought it was so funny. What good big brothers Ella has!
We hiked, not very far unfortunately, at the Menan Butte's. This was one of Devin and my favorite things to do when we were here. Once you get to the top, you can see forever... it's amazing! But we had some (or one) tired boy that wasn't wanting to hike, so we just walked a little ways, so Anson felt like he had gotten to hike. It was still beautiful.
Anson, determined to climb to the top...
Another of our favorite places was the Sand Dunes. We went to only one small area of these massive dunes. The boys thought they were so cool and wondered how so much sand could be in the middle of nowhere. We wonder too.
You can see a little bit of the dunes, just past this little puddle lake.
We also spent some time at Porter park. The kids needed some free time to run and play.
You can't visit Rexburg without eating at Big Judd's! Out of all the memories we have of Rexburg, a lot of them consist of food and restaurants. with a list of places we wanted to eat at while we there, but not enough meals to fit them in, we had to pick our tops. We made it to most, especially Millhollow for there delicious sandwiches and frozen yogurt (yum, oh so yum) and Big Judd's. Sorry, Craigo's we'll have to get to you next time :(
Big Judd's not only has the largest burgers you have ever seen, they are also the most delicious. And one of the things I miss most of Idaho? Fry Sauce! Here is Anson with his burger... the size of a plate! And this is just a single! They also have doubles and triples now! The story is,if you eat your entire burger you get your picture on the wall.... there are a lot of pictures on the walls! And they have 2 more categories now! Too much deliciousness for me... we actually split this burger with the whole family. It comes with great fries and we also ordered their super yummy onion rings. Not up for a plate sized, pound of meat burger with all the fixin's? Don't worry, they have regular sized burgers too... then you can always end you meal with the hungry hefer... that's a 15! scoop ice cream sundae. Never tried that one, but it always amazes me that's in on the menu!
The kiddos loved staying in a hotel... although I swear hotel rooms pipe something into their ventelation systems that make kids go crazy! Lots of bed jumping, running... you know the usual.
More days to come! Sorry for the long posts!
played on the ship inside the corn maze...
went through the maze... saw lot's of over sized stuffed animals in cages,
A ride on little toot. Everyone else rode on big toot (a tractor ride around the farm)
It was a long trip, with a lot of driving, walking, visiting with friends and family. It was so much fun and we are so grateful to have such wonderful people in our lives. Thank you grandpa & grandma to treating us to a fun day in Spokane, thank you Matt & Gina for letting us stay at your house both weekends of our trip! Thank you Kaholoaa's for letting us stay at your house while we were in Utah! We hope that we will get to see all of you again sooner than later!
