Welcome to Idaho (State #41)

I have heard parts of Idaho are not to be missed.  This part must have been in the opposite direction that we were traveling.  Northern Idaho up by the Canada border is the "part not to be missed."  Go ahead and miss on the southern route through Boise.  It's not that it's ugly. It's not really ugly.  It's just potato field upon field, a few mountains here and there off in the distance and lots of corn. Corn? I thought this was Spudder Land but alas, we saw more corn than potatoes.  Oh well.  

Boise was our stop on the way thru to Montana. There's not a slew of things to do in Boise.  Don't give me that shocked face.  I'm sure you already knew that!  We stopped through this place called Wahooz Family Center.  Oh man...this place makes a killing.  We literally stayed at his fun joint for 5 straight hours because there's nothing else to do in Boise right? They had mini golf, go carts, bumper boats, arcades, laser tag, and bowling.  As if all that is not enough they also include a bowling center inside this huge place.  Let's just say we suffered through many hours in this place.  Being outside was actually fine for me.  It had gorgeous weather and snacks out there to enjoy.  Inside was another story all together filled with beeping machines, screaming children, crying babies, yelling parents, smashing pins, and bells and whistles galore.  I can't see how all these employees don't go home with massive headaches.  

The weather, again, was phenomenal.  We wanted to take advantage of every opportunity to explore this weather outside as possible.  Enter Rexburg, Idaho. This was another town we stopped through en route to Montana.  They had a drive through animal park named Bear World.  Bear World was awesome fun for one of our children and extreme boredom for the other.  I think Will once stated while there, "The drive here was more fun than this place."  Drama.  Mind you we were driving about 7 hours that day so he must have really been having a "blast" at Bear World. It would have been way more cool to actually get to feed the baby bears with the bottle but that was $75 and the bears were all full.  They didn't want bottles. Bummer we drove 7 hours for that. At least Owen enjoyed it.  

Highlights of this state:

The weather (again amazing)
Being hit with flying potatoes on the highway (classic)
Feeding huge bears Pringles through our open car window (we broke the rules)
Dutch Brothers Coffee (not just in Portland)