July Activities

Work has been so crazy I needed to get away. We weren't able to make it to Brashear Beach Week this year with the extended family so we opted for a mini vacation ourselves.

Destination: Farragut State Park (Athol, ID)

Idaho State Parks are amazing!! They are by far the most well kept. We stayed at the Whitetail Campsite #36. It was a prime location. It was close to the showers, restrooms, water spigot, and the Tot Lot for kids to play on. Yet it was far enough away from those things not to be bothered.

Our campsite.

Jake setting up the tent

I'm tying the poles in the inside.

1) We're getting the fire going for foil dinners

2) Creepy spider that must have been dangling in front of the camera.

We didn't notice it until today!!

Foil dinner. Yum!

This park has a ton of history. It actually was a Naval Training Station in 1940's (and other things after the war ended). It is the only land locked Naval Training Station. In fact the Navy still uses it today. They chose it because they were afraid the coast would have been attacked.

After the war the government removed all of the buildings in each camp. The National Guard came in and reseeded and planted trees to bring it back to it's original beauty. They did an amazing job!

This is a picture of Jake and I at Camp Bennion.

On one of our many hikes Jake and I found this double chimney tucked back off the trail. We later found out it was for the Officers.

This was a statue (obviously) dedicated to those who trained at Farragut and served in WWII.

This is the lower tip of Pend Orielle (pronounced Pond O Ray).

Us!

This was at the lower bend. It opened up to a massive lake. It was awesome.

Jake enjoying the view.

Making my signature scrapbook opener page.

Scrapbook opener page:

I found two rocks in the shape of hearts!!

We drove up to Bayview. I couldn't believe there were houses on the water like this. I know I'm a little late on things... Oh and the white building to the right is the "garage" for the boats. Crazy.

Then we ventured to Silverwood. Silverwood is a theme park. It's a Six Flags meets Wet 'n Wild. Although not as good as the two. Still extremely fun.

I made Jake drive me around in this car.

(it was a kids ride and we were the only adults without a kid in line)

Jake's favorite ride . . .

And how he felt after it . . .

Even though it rained on us while we were there we still ended the day with a Snow Cone!

On to our next adventure . . . Jacob's birthday!