impressions of idaho

before i went to idaho, my sister blogged about how beautiful it was. in fact, her blog title was idaho is beautiful. so i was excited to get up there, see a whole new landscape (that was beautiful) and take some pictures.

fact: idaho is not really beautiful. also, it is FREEZING!!! (but i'm really glad you like it there, amanda)

because of the temperature, i tried not to go outside, if i could help it. when i dropped my sister off at her apartment, she'd stand by the window and try to cement our next plans. but i wouldn't roll the window down. "call me on your cell phone from inside!" i'd shout through the glass pane.

so i didn't take any pictures. in fact, i pulled my camera out only once and that wasn't to take pictures of my sister, it was to take a picture of my friend hernan (or in english, click here) when he was meeting seth for the first time.

despite the weather and despite my lack of pictures, i had a lot of fun. the trip was short and i felt like i had to squeeze a lot in to such a small amount of time, but it was good to see amanda and it was good to be able to sit down and focus on her. for some reason, i feel like i haven't been able to do that for a long time (i think some reason is named ava). our goal is to have a girls weekend once a year (good luck to us).

my idaho observations:

idaho is flat. after i moved to utah i thought maybe california was flat, but no. it isn't. at all. idaho is.
everyone has a shed. sometimes two. they've got a lot to store in idaho.
it's windy in idaho. that makes it way more cold than it ought to be.
rexburg is where amanda's college is, idaho falls is where we landed. they are thirty minutes apart. and in between them is nothing (well i think it's nothing). but apparently, if you want to have some fun you should have a car because all of the fun is in idaho falls.
they are a museum happy people there. there's an idaho museum, a potato museum, a mud-river museum, a tv museum (because apparently the town of rigby, which could be more accurately described as a village is where tv was invented. it's a good thing, too. what do you do all winter when it's zero degrees outside?) and a bear museum.
there's also a park called bear world where you get on the top of these trucks and they drive you around the park and you look at deer, caribou and perhaps a bear. sounds safe (and fun).
there's a lot of wood piled up everywhere. i don't know.

i'm grateful my sister loves it there. it was awesome to see where she is so happy. i loved seeing her. but i don't want to live in idaho (really, at this point, i only want to live in california).