July in Idaho, Part 3

Sheesh!  You're still in Idaho?

Why, yes.  Yes, I am.  

Even though Kitty and I had plenty of time to gallivant with cousins, we also had quite a few days where we were on our own to make up adventures with my folks.  Don't worry, we worked it out.  We filled our time with things like:

Taking The Potato to get snow cones.  The Potato is my parent's dog, Pepper.  She's pleasantly plump and shaped exactly like a potato.  She also walks to the Sno Shack at a turtle's pace.  BUT! The Sno Shack now has sugar-free snow cones that taste nearly identical to the originals.  It was totally worth the slow trot in the desert sun to get there.

We made slime, exploding soap, and tried other sciencey experiments that we found in a book we picked up at a Little Free Library while on an evening walk.  Some worked well, others were duds.

We bought a boomerang and tried to make it come back to us.  It didn't.  Not once.  Those Australians are full of crap.

Kitty found a new reading spot.

And made her own Ninja Warrior course out of it when she wasn't reading.

We enjoyed quiet evenings watching art restoration videos.

Well...some of us enjoyed the videos.

And I ate one of the best steaks of my life.

But perhaps my favorite activity was when we ventured out to the Butterfly Haven.  It was located in the middle of nowhere among farmland, so I was expecting a podunk outfit with a modest number of butterflies.  Boy, was I wrong!  It was amazingly beautiful with thousands of butterflies fluttering around.  We saw eggs, baby caterpillars, fat caterpillars, chrysalises, the entire life cycle of butterflies.  The man in charge even let us hold a butterfly since he was releasing a new batch of monarchs into the enclosure.  Kitty was able to feed the quails that were running around and it truly was a magical outing.  To top it off, we had lunch at a Mexican restaurant that serves the best Pollo Asada you will ever eat.  I hadn't been there in at least 10 years and it was divine. If you ever find yourself in the middle of nowhere in Southeastern Idaho looking for something to do, go to the Butterfly Haven.  And then eat Pollo Asada.  Or the Pollo Con Crema.  Either one will change your life.

We also went to the museum to learn all about Genghis Khan but I failed to document that.  I was too engrossed in the exhibit. That guy was wild!

All in all, I'd say we did a mighty fine job keeping ourselves entertained!