More Fun in Idaho

After our first few days of fun in Idaho, nearly the whole crowd loaded into a trolley car for a tour around town and up to the Sierra Silver Mine.

We had lunch at the City Limits Pub, then headed to the railroad museum.

I took a quick walk through the Bordello Museum (closed for business in 1988!) We met up with the Wans for a hike on the Pulaski Trail. It was breathtakingly beautiful the whole way. We saw two snakes and only two other hikers the entire four mile round trip.

 We had a big family dinner at Red Light Garage, which had a UFO in the parking lot.

Most of us walked to 6th Street and Bank Street which is the official probable Center of the Universe.

 The next morning, we went to breakfast with Tim and Jo at a cute little tiny bakery in Osburn.

The Burrows and Dallin headed up to Albert's Landing to float the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River. The nice guys there loaned us some tubes for our rafting adventure.

The water was chilly, and not too deep. After heading upstream for a while (we are such novice rafters!) TB pulled us into the current and we went through the "rapids". We rafted under a steel bridge and onto a rocky beach where we skipped rocks. The grown ups towed the kids back up stream and did the rapids again. We filled our rafts up with interesting rocks and had a really great time.

 Back in Wallace, the little girl cousins attended a tea party with Aunt Jo. Jovie dressed up like "The Black Swan". The ballet, not the movie.

 There was lots of swimming at the WPA-era swimming pool and the Burrows made chili dogs for dinner. The Faucheux kids sat around a card table making jokes late into the night.
On our last day, we took some walks up and down the public stairs and checked out the alleys.

It was a very cool part of the world to visit, and we didn't come close to running out of things to do.