Idaho, Part 1

I took the kids on our first trip-without-Ben in quite a while.  It went quite well and I didn't get drowsy while driving even once!  We made the 6-hour drive to visit my friend Kathryn and her family in the area of Boise.  Kathryn has three kids, the oldest of whom is a year older than Cat, and the youngest is Eliza's age.  We had such a great time with them!  We arrived on a Monday afternoon and stayed until Wednesday morning.  It was just right for a last summer hurrah before school started the next week.

We started out with a trip to a nearby park with a splash pad.  The kids weren't in the water very much, but they had a great time playing and it gave Kathryn and me the perfect opportunity to talk.

The next morning we headed to the Foothills Learning Center where they have a Story Trail, a toddler-level trail around the main building with the pages of a story book spread out at short intervals.  It was a fun little activity with an incredible mosaic tree at the end which provided some fun photo ops for me and Eliza.

The girls had fun using my camera.
I really like this picture that Kathryn's second daughter took.

(Luke didn't want to join our circle.)