A Park in Twin Falls

First, a couple of Tiffani's photography talents... She loves taking pictures of the sun peeking through things. The first picture is through the trees at Ross Park when we were climbing and the second is at the Park in Twin through the railroad tracks.




I put this old picture of Dad sitting in front of a rock (from 1963) in the scrapbook I made. Mom said the picture was taken at Twin Falls Park. Well, a google search of "Twin Falls Park" just took us to the Twin Falls Parks & Rec Dept. off Shoshone Street. Mom remembered walking down a lot of stairs, too. So we checked out what appeared to be a park down & behind the the Parks and Rec building.

This is from the parking lot looking down into the Park.

This is the path (& apparently someones driveway!) that we walked down to get to the greenbelt path. Doesn't look to steep & no stairs there, but it had a pretty good slope!

Wooden bridge & a sign that said "private property". There was a house behind all those trees on the left. The greenbelt path started here.

The sign at the beginning of the greenbelt path.

The rock that I thought might be "the" rock.

Part of the greenbelt. The door in the cliff was open - Brianna really wanted to explore some more, but we didn't!! The top of the cliff/rocks on the right is the parking lot.

The path where we came from - The bridge we walked under is Shoshone Street.

We walked a little further, just under the train track. The path kept going, but I don't know to where or how far!

There was this old building...
And then through the trees we saw this concrete trough "thingy" that came down from the building. Don't know the significance of it, but Mom remembered walking down to see a building of some sort so just wonder if this may have been it. It was up on the hill across from the creek we were walking beside.

So here's a picture of the picture of Dad by the rock & the rock I took a picture of - looks pretty similar though taken at different angles. I'd say it could be the place Mom & Dad were at 40+ years ago!!

It'd be fun to explore the greenbelt a little more, but we stopped on our way home last weekend & it was 97 degrees & the path was in the sun, so we didn't spend too much time down there. We also never came across the picnic area Mom remembered, but like I said that path continues on. ...So Mom, does any of it look familiar? :)

Kids

Saturday night Brianna and Tiffani took the cousins to the school to play. Les & I decided to go to & take the dogs along for a little walk. I think the older cousins (& uncle Les) had as much fun as the younger cousins. :)

But first a picture of Hannah cuddling with Tiffani. I'm not sure who Hannah was more excited was back at Grandma's - Tiffani or the dogs. (Probably both!)

You could find Hannah giving those dogs loves any chance she got!

Hannah got to walk Simba back from the school.



Caleb really want to take Simba for a walk too, so he got to - in the house. :) And Simba went to his favorite spot in the house - looking out Grandma's front window.

Marcus sitting out back talking to Les & I.

Back to the school:
Marcus mastered climbing to the top of the spiral ladder(?) and wanted proof! There's your picture, Marcus.

Marcus loved climbing the pole, just like a monkey. He was pretty quick on it.

Caleb was making the rounds, climbing the stairs, going down the slide, again & again. Les sat at the top of the slide, wondering what Caleb would do. He got to the top of the stairs, saw Les and just stood there contemplating it. It took him a minute to decided it was worth it and he walked right over there, up past Les like he wasn't even there and went down the slide. It was pretty cute.



More monkeys. :)



Yet another monkey.

Love this picture!

The big kids made a "tunnel" on the slide & the little kids came down. Quite abit of static on that slide!

Two short weekends with the cousins wasn't much, but that little bit of time is so very worth it. So thankful for the little snippets of time we have together.

Ross Park "Mini" Cliffs

We went back to Aberdeen this last weekend and spent Saturday afternoon at the cliffs at Ross Park. I say mini in the title because they do seem pretty short and look like they'd be fairly easy (speaking from total inexperience here!!!). Well Les commented that the cliffs are pretty short, but there are some pretty tough climbs there, too. Not necessarily worth a 4 hour drive for, but worth it if we are in the area already. So the following pictures are a few of Les, Brianna & Tiffani climbing. I kept my feet firmly (except a few bounces here & there) planted on the ground and was belaying Les & Brianna.







Les would have to set up the ropes when we moved from one climb to the next & I took that opportunity to take some pictures of the girls having fun.







Obviously not at the cliffs, but just a random shot that turned out great. :)

A few more posts to come later... Lots of cute pictures of the niece & nephews and of our exploring in Twin.

Boise River

Saturday morning was Kuna Days fun, Saturday afternoon was Boise River fun. Tiffani was invited to her friend's birthday party, which has always been floating the Boise River. The popular part of the river to float is Barber Park to Ann Morrison Park (about 6 miles of river). Les & I decided we'd go down to the River and see if we could catch Tiffani floating by and get some pictures. So we had a nice walk along part of the greenbelt and were headed to the takeout point to watch and wait. We got almost to that point and decided that maybe we'd wait back a little way and found a great spot to sit by the river and just enjoy the afternoon. Yep, he talked me into walking out into the river some... He went about half way across. The water was so clear and sitting in the shade, the breeze felt great on the hot afternoon. It was wonderful. We had just been deciding how long to wait since it'd been over an hour (it does take about 2 hours or more to float that stretch) and here they came floating by. Missed the picture - the camera focused on the leaves of the tree instead. So Les took the camera and ran down to the take out and got a couple of shots of them coming in.

A big group of "kids" were jumping from the tree in the middle of the River here. The guy on the branch in the middle of the picture did a back flip off of it!! The bridge in the background in the Capitol Blvd. bridge.

From our little observation point, Les zoomed in on the footbridge in Ann Morrison Park. The take out for floaters is on either side of the footbridge.

Just a random picture of lots of floaters - tubes, rafts, air mattresses (really! we saw 2 twins & a queen), kayaks.

Just thought this was too cute - the little kid in the front of the blue inflatable canoe, just kicked back, relaxing while Dad did all the rowing.

Me standing in the river.

Les in the middle of the river.

Tiffani in the raft with Michala (laying down ?), Larry (M's dad), and 2 other party guests.

The group again. :)

Tiffani loves this yearly adventure with Michala. Maybe one day the family will convince me to go raft the Boise River... Until then, sitting on the bank enjoying the water, the weather, and especially the company - that works for me! :)