Vacation: Days 1 & 2 - Cabin and Boulder Beach

Our big vacation for this year was spent in Northern Idaho where we stayed at a small cabin in Worley, just south of Coeur D'Alene, that was rented through VRBO. I don't know why but I never got a picture of the outside of the cabin. It was on 120 acres of property, and we were surrounded by beautiful scenery, including two ponds. The owners actually live just up the street. They were out of town when we came to stay but they had a friend watching their property and helping with the cabin. We arrived on Tuesday the 25th of June and the first day was just getting groceries and relaxing and exploring the cabin and property. We even made some pizza balls for dinner at the cabin that night but unfortunately their oven was hotter than we thought, and they got a wee bit too dark but, they were edible. It was still fun to have the girls help me make them. The boys did the dishes that night. We coordinated our vacation with my brother's family, Stillman and Michelle and kids. They took their camper and stayed at an RV campground near Silverwood, which is almost an hour away from our cabin, so we didn't see them on the first day.

We piled into the truck so we could have more cargo space.

One of the ponds.

This little critter was swimming. We're not certain but we think it's a beaver.

The girls were happy to see the horses and feed them grass.

They also got to pet them.

Making our pizza balls.

The cabin had two smaller bedrooms downstairs. The girls stayed in one and shared a bed. The boys were in the other, but their room was slightly bigger and had a twin size hide-a-bed couch, so Garrett got the bed and Jack took the couch. Upstairs was loft style and that's where the master was. I kept bumping my head on the slanted ceiling though when reaching for stuff in my bag by the wall. There was no bedroom door, so if we needed to, we would change in the bathroom. It was really warm up there, but I found the remote for the A/C unit and got it going. It was nice and cool by bedtime. The staircase was super skinny, maybe 2 - 2 1/2 feet wide. And there was no dish washer, so we washed everything by hand. 

There was only one TV in the living room downstairs, which was next to a fireplace stove. They had some dvds and a bunch of VHS films. One of the VHS that we tried to watch, the tracking was so bad that we had to turn it off and Curtis just rented it through Amazon prime on our Roku. It was Babe the pig. They also had some old games and puzzles. I was able to do two puzzles while there. One of them had a missing piece though. They also had an assortment of books to read. There were a bunch of Louie L'Amour books, so Curtis read one while there.

Wednesday was our first day at Silverwood Theme Park (out of two) and looking at the forecast showed us that this would be the warmest day and best time to go to Boulder Beach, which is the water park at Silverwood. It was in the upper 70's, around 80 degrees that day. We got to go on the new water slide, which was fun. It was called Eagle Hunt. There were parts of this slide that push you uphill with water. There was one person that got stuck on the ride while we waited in line so that made it take longer. After Boulder Beach closed, we decided to go on the wet rides in the main part of Silverwood while we still had swimsuits on. I finally did the big water raft ride. I had never done that one before because you get pretty wet on that ride, and I never wanted to get wet in my regular clothes. We also did the log ride a couple of times and bumper boats. The line for bumper boats took about an hour and in my opinion not worth the wait, but Michelle wanted to do it. I think by the time we finally got changed there was only time for the kids to ride a couple of regular rides before the park closed. I just watched the girls go on a couple of rides. My stomach can't handle them like they used to. 

They have the coolest water playground at Boulder Beach.

Cousins

Riding the Tilt-A-Whirl at the end of the day.

It was a great start to a great week!