Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Idaho

        During break I went to Idaho with a family friend and her two little boys. Recently Adrienne lost her husband EJ from a heart attack at age 28. His family lives in Idaho and she wanted to go see his family again for the holidays. Traveling with herself and her two boys is hard because Gage is 15 months old and Hunter will be three in March. I've been to Idaho a few other times with her and the boys, but never during the winter.

        I spent about seven in half days in Idaho because I traveled for about half of a day between airports. I flew into Idaho Falls, Idaho. Then drove to Salmon, Idaho because that's where the family I was staying with lives at. Salmon, Idaho is about three hours from Idaho Falls. I had the opportunity to go skiing twice at Lost Trail. Lost Trail is a ski resort between Montana and Idaho. This resort is a little over a half an hour from Salmon. Another day I went ice fishing at _____ Lake. I had good luck and caught a 14 inch rainbow fish. Jim, the dad of the family I was staying with is the varsity boys and girls basketball coach. Since I was missing basketball practice back in Iowa, he set up some scrimmages with four other schools around Salmon so I wouldn't get rusty over break. I also went to basketball practice with him whenever we didn't scrimmage. Jim always made sure I wasn't bored. I can't wait till I get to go back to Idaho.