So we are in Sun Valley for the beginning of the week. Just a little low key, stay in Idaho vacation. Marisa's boss was cool enough to let us use their families vacation rental in Sun Valley. Aside from driving through, we have never really spent any time here. We got up on Saturday and kind of took it easy getting on the road. We mowed the lawns, cut Jake's hair, visited with friends, dropped the dog off at the kennel and lazily packed the car for the trip. We got on the road about one, with almost everything we own. We brought warm weather clothes, cold weather clothes, pool clothes, work out clothes, books, electronics, movies, board games, baseball gear, football gear, fishing gear and our bikes. It was a really easy trip up and we got here a little after three o'clock. We went out to a great Mexican place referred to us by our Chiropractor, whom we lovingly call "Hippie Jim".
The house is great, really close to town and fully set up. There is a hot tub, which we have already been in several times. We are within walking distance to the lodge and it's an easy bike ride into downtown. We took advantage of everything today it felt like.
The kids slept late, so no breakfast out. It was a lazy, mountain cool morning of reading, breakfast in, hot tubs, red bull (for me) and coffee for my better half. After we all got our gumption up, we got the bikes together and headed downtown for mid morning coffee (and yes for those who have followed our vacation exploits before - browsing thru various shops with coffee in hand). We rode down to the river and the ski area, which were both pretty deserted and then headed back home. This is our first trip with Tanner exclusively riding his own bike, and while we weren't really all that far away he was pretty tuckered by the time we got home.
We made "mandatory rest time" a thing again and Marisa got to read her magazines and relax while I went for a great run. There are a ton of bike paths here. I ran out to the Sawtooth National Forest then up some mountain bike tracks into the hills. I came back out onto the golf course and wound around a REALLY expensive neighborhood back down into the resort and home. It was overcast and the perfect temperature for a run. It ended up being my second favorite run ever (the 1st was in Kauai, coming down out of the mountains towards Anahola Bay where a whale was breaching in the distance -so cool). I came back from my run to find them in the hot tub again.
Once I cooled down, and they dried off, we were off to the ice skating rink at the lodge. Tanner was all fired up to try skating (why I have NO idea) and had mentioned it several times over the course of the first couple of days. It is a really nice outdoor rink and, like Squaw, is so stupidly expensive, I was a little concerned we were paying $80.00 for what would be 4 minutes of ice skating.....and for Faith it was. So got literally about 25 feet and was done. Luckily, they gave us a refund for her fees so she became official family photographer. I love to skate and have been doing it my whole life. Marisa likes it, but in the "elephants from Fantasia" sort of style. The boys really gave it a good go for quite a while...we got our moneys worth.
We came back home and got changed and walked, yep, walked to dinner. We ate at the pizza place in the lodge and had some really expensive pizza. Luckily, it was REALLY good. We ate out on the patio and had a couple of beers (thus the desire to walk) while the kids played around on the lodge grounds, looking at the ducks (they could have been COOKING the ducks for all we cared at that point) and just leaving us alone to enjoy a beautiful evening.
We came back to the house and read for a bit, then went in the hot tub again. Tomorrow we're thinking fishing, maybe hiking, maybe swimming. We'll see. We're supposed to get some rain tomorrow so we'll see how it goes. We're having a great trip so far and are really enjoying ourselves.
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