Idaho City

We took a family trip to Idaho City for 3 days. I didn't realize how close to Boise you could find a beautiful forest! It only took us an hour to get there from our house. Idaho City is an old mining town where they discovered more gold than in Alaska! It's a tiny little town now, with some of the original buildings still there. We stayed in a little house right on the main road. It was perfect to be able to walk down the street to go grab lunch or dinner, or to just look around. 

We visited a giant thrift/antique/junk shop right around the corner from our house called the Sluice Box. Morgan found some new brass treasures to go on top of his desk, the boys found a few new guys, and I found a baby rattle that was the same one I remember having when I was a baby. 

On Monday, we took the Can Am out and rode through the forest. It was so fun to stop whenever the trail met up with the stream and let the boys get out and play in the water. They even found some gold nuggets! 😉  By the time we got back in to town, all three boys were asleep! Later that night, we took them to the pioneer cemetery. They thought it was pretty cool at first, and then were starting to get freaked out after we had been there for a while. Morgan came out from behind a tree to scare them, but someone else across the cemetery making a noise got Mason so good! Morgan and I couldn't stop laughing all night at his face!

We also toured the Boise Basin Museum, which ended up being way smaller than I thought it would be, but still was interesting to get to see so many old items from the town. 

We watched Holes and Heavyweights with the boys at night and after the kids were asleep, Morgan and I watched a lot of Arrested Development. I don't know how I didn't think that show was very funny when we first started watching it, but we were dying laughing during every episode! 

I loved the slow pace of this trip and being able to spend time together with just our family was so fun!