boy SEE : somehow every post has 34 pictures. sorry.

really though! 

somehow every single long post i put has about 34. 

either you guys are really lucky or

i just need to calm down and learn how make my posts shorter.

while we are deciding the answer to that let's talk about boise! 

(apparently pronounced boy-see, not boy-zee. dang our utahn accent!)

my mission and now real life friend jacquie and i were invited up to
another mission friend's house in boise for memorial day weekend.

neither one of us really had anything going on so we figured why 

the heck not! i mean what isn't there to love about idaho?!?

(honesty moment = i have always hated idaho)

the drive was gorgeous! we heard it would be really ugly but thanks

to it raining all day for weeks it wasn't!

jeff drove with us up and this is pretty much what he did the whole time.

we both felt bad he had to endure through like five "NOW this is what

i call music!" cd's and the prince of egypt soundtrack. sorry jeff!

we made a stop in twin because i wanted to have a picnic at the falls and of

course go to the classy magic mall, sit on a weird couch display in the middle of it,

and drink a ginormous strawberry julius.

since that mall forgot to have good food we settled for kfc.

nothing like a picnic in twin falls canyon!

( i think that is what this place is called? i don't actually have any idea)

soooo about to storm but so nice.

after our adventure filled ride up we went on a hike right outside of

downtown boise. it was so so pretty. half way up it started to hail!

turning back was mentioned but then we remembered that we are

yo bonfa missionaries! so instead we finished out the hike

 completely drenched and freezing. it was great.

and look at this great bench overlooking the valley!

afterwards we had the urge to ring this bell at the capitol.

since our shoes had ten pounds of mud on them we just did it barefoot.

rebels!!

this photo happened barefoot too

(we just wanted to make the most of our idaho experience)

every night we enjoyed staring at the glow in the dark stars on this fan

until they stopped glowing. fun! saturn!

my camera actually died so we don't really have pictures of sunday,

i actually took this one off facebook. this would be our friend's dad taking

us around on his "tour of boise" and us stopping at the boise state stadium.

their family is pretty into athletics and we definitely all had to put our

hands over our hearts before and after this picture was taken.

the rest of sunday was really nice! jacquie overheard a girl saying at church that

 she just got baptized so we went into missionary mode and sat with her

throughout all the meetings and loved every minute of it. after church we ate,

sang hymns around the piano, and played reverse charades.

it was a day full of mormon goodness and i felt like i was back in high school

again. that was one of my most favorite parts of murray!  the friends i

made there and the wholesome things we would do. i miss those times.

whoops. sorry it got a little too journaly there!

anyway.  

so sunday was nice.

monday we were going to go home in the morning but decided boise is

quite the drive and we wanted to make our trip worth it so instead

we stayed and fed the ducks!

(ps sorry the quality of these pictures aren't the best. we had to borrow a

camera and bad pictures are better than no pictures right?)

I don't know if you can tell but i've never been more

excited about anything

nor has jacquie

(is nor a word?)

yes. he bit my hand.

then jacquie and i learned how to ride scooters!

for some reason i always thought they were really difficult and you

had to use a clutch so i never wanted to but it was in fact easy as ever!

even on this baby track at the elementary. rebels again!

during our ride we hit up this park that said it was only for 6 - 12

year olds. little did they know that it was fine for adults and nothing was

broken. jacquie's new best friend!

benson loooooved it

and we loved it

we also loved this belle ladder at benson's house!!!

and his niece's no boys allowed cardboard play house

and his mom!

"oh my! how did these girls serve a mission and

do the naughty moves!" oh gosh. i loved her.

and benson's dad!

who loves to put creepy displays up for every holiday!

we also loved driving home and stopping at the hammett sign.

(and saying "hammett!" all weekend)

like the rest of the weekend, we wanted to make the most of our trip

so we tried to stop at anything that sounded cool on the way home.

fossils sound cool right?!

sad thing we had no idea where they were.

so jacquie just layed down so we could say we saw one.

and we did find this creepy cross of john simmons with rubber

geccos all over it so i guess that was worth the detour!

next stop was the malad gorge!

let's give three cheers for wearing the same outfit two days in a row 

because i tried to be more like a boy and only pack exactly what i

thought i would need but since we stayed and extra day that didn't really

work out. note to self: that was stupid.

hahaha

yes it was important to stop at every bird to see all the

different view points of the gorge.

good to know

groooooooooooss

next stop: the real twin falls!!

(and my favorite lady ever!)

this picture or the other twenty i took of it really don't do it justice.

definitely worth the $3 it cost to drive down there.

and then we were off for hours and hours back to good old utah.

this trip along with a trip to idaho falls (that i will blog about soon!) has made me
not hate idaho anymore! yay for that break through!

and yay for realizing that even though this weekend of fun was spent with like
12 other people, in my head it was just a nice getaway for jacquie and i and
we really just hung out with each other the whole time (like when everyone went
and played basketball monday morning and we slept in instead).
i feel kind of bad but like this story nonetheless.

if you read the captions to all this i'm way sorry.
love to love you!