This year, I spent the 4th in Idaho with a good friend from work. I was her plus-one and doubled as car babysitter for her cute little guy. I was seriously dreading riding 10+ hours in the car with a toddler but Dane was a total champ and I have a years worth of birth control built up. My friend Charlotte is from a tiny town by the Oregon border called Grangeville. I have a serious soft spot in my heart for small towns and Grangeville is no exception. Rolling hills of farmland and a cute flag lined Main Street. It was lovely. Char comes from a great family and I had so much fun with them! We wanted to run the local 5K but since it was going to be too hot by the race start time, we did our own little 3.1 mile run down the country roads. You could seriously run for hours and hours and hours. I ran down the middle of the street just because I could! We got ready and headed into town for the 4th festivities. It started off with an egg toss that I pretty sure I should sit out on in the future. It was wild and so not for me. Throwing raw eggs to your partner? I got us out on the second throw mainly cause I was afraid of getting egg juice on my TOMS. That would've been tragic! There was fantastic parade that went on and on. It was very impressive for a small town. After considering dying of heat stroke on the side of the parade route, we headed home. I had a great nap and we were off again for a BBQ and fireworks in town. It was a great 4th of July!
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| Char, the back of Dane's head, and I |
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| Such a beautiful place. I loved the canola fields (the yellow stuff). |
The next morning, we ran again and set off to go boating just over the border in Washington....on a river. I just couldn't wrap my head around boating on a river until I saw it. There was plenty of room. It's been far to long since I've been on a boat and I loved every minute. The highlight of my day was tubing with two of the little boy cousins. They were hilarious and provided the most dramatic tube ride of my life. There was lots of screaming and words of dread. My favorite line came from the 4 year old: "I just want to live until I'm 6!!!" It was so funny!
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| Me and the boys. I'm well aware of my ultra cute face. |
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| We spotted big foot on the way home. Such a friendly guy! |
On Saturday, morning we set out on an early rafting trip. Oh my fun! I loved every minute of it and may have peed my pants, well swim suit bottoms a couple of times with laughter. We washed away about 5 lbs of dirt from the muddy water and went to Char's grandma's 90th birthday party. The highlight of the party was a pet bobcat! Yes, a pet. If you want one, they're $1700. It was a cute little thing but I was satisfied with just a picture. It was such a fun weekend!
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| The girls (Char's sisters) before rafting. |
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| Only in Idaho! |
