Memorial Day part 2

So we headed over to the Perrine Bridge.  They actually have a steady stream of base jumpers that come and take a dive, but since it was so windy, there was no one there.


Baby Lexie is in the purple blanket at the bottom of this next photo:

We went over to the visitor’s center and talked with the lady there and she said that you could see the landing pad where the base jumpers land on the other side of the bridge, so we braved the wind and took the trail under the bridge:

There were bronze statues all over the place:

Then we made it to the other lookout and we saw the landing pad:

There is a little red circle with an X in the middle of it.  That is where they are supposed to land.  Here’s a better picture of the bridge:

Then we ran back to our cars and headed out to the fish hatchery.  Matt was very excited about this:

He took a TON of pictures of the fish.  Here are a few:


They said that if you order Trout in any restaurant in the western United States it probably came from this facility.  It was HUGE.  Here are more fish pics as per Matt’s request:

You can’t see it very well, but that fish is GIANT.  They told me what type it was but I was tuning them out and I can’t remember.

More fish.

This was just HALF of the hatchery.  It was HUGE:

Then we headed to the lake just below.  Matt was really bummed he didn’t have his fishing pole.  We could have left him there all day.  There were pelicans all over the place.
 
It was around 11:30 and we were starting to get hungry so we headed back into Twin Falls to eat at Idaho Joes:

There was a wooden bear out front that the kids hopped on:



The food was cheap, but not that great.  Then we loaded up the car, filled it with gas, and headed home.  It was a new experience and absolutely beautiful.  I’m glad I could share it with my family even if we were in the car for 11 total hours!!