The Fun in Sun Valley Continues

The kids are taking turns sleeping in until 9. Yesterday it was Jake and today it was Tanner. It's been great because the mornings are peaceful and we get some one-on-one time with whoever is up earliest. Yesterday I played some Crazy 8s with Tanner and this morning Jake and I read for awhile and went in the hottub. The view outside the windows is beautiful and serene, plus the hottub is a pretty nice day to greet the day. 

We rode our bikes downtown for breakfast once everyone was awake. We stumbled upon a place that happend to have a putting green (like mini golf) outside. While Brian and I had our respective morning drinks and waited for the food, the kids occupied themselves with golfing. We thought it was a genius of an idea and asked our waitress about it. She told us it is actually part of a larger town-wide drinking game involving several local bars and a putting green challenge involving beer or wine. So, entertaining the kids was not its intended purpose... but still... it made our breakfast experience even better- and it was already pretty good since we were able to ride our bikes there, sit outside, and enjoy their special Blue Corn Pancakes. Yum. 

After breakfast we wandered around town a little more then headed home to pack up a picnic lunch for a noontime fishing trip to Penny Lake- a rainbow trout stocked pond about 4 miles outside of Ketchum. It was Faith's first time really fishing, but the boys were experts at casting this trip.  The only person that caught anything was Brian- and it was too little to do anything with (not that we would have kept it and cooked it anyway!). I still don't get the allure of fishing, but I played the photographer for this portion of the trip and enjoyed being outdoors and watching the kids get all excited each time they got a nibble. 


We went back to the house and enforced a mandatory one hour rest time (all 5 of us) prior to going back out in the hottub and then back into town to get me a latte and to visit the local independent bookstore. Great place! Had fun wandering around there for a while as it was raining outside. The pizza place we had eaten at the night before had given us free movie tickets to see Epic at the Sun Valley Opera House theater, so we headed back there and enjoyed Happy Hour before the 6PM movie started. Still raining... so it was good timing. 

We finished off the day with a stop at LeRoy's ice cream- a non profit ice cream place in the middle of town that serves Toni's Ice Cream (a Sun Valley speciality). Both Brian and I are in the middle of good books, the kids have created a game called "Hide the Tape" (I'm not entirely sure of the rules, but it involves hiding a piece of duct tape somewhere outside and giving clues to the other two kids as to where it is) that  keeps them happy and entertained for hours on end, and there's still some Circus Animal Cookie Ice Cream in the freezer. Life is Good.