Cow Round Up (Thursday, June 4)

Today, we needed to drive from Ogden, Utah, where our hotel was, to Twin Falls Idaho. Twin Falls is the place where Chad is going to learn how to jump off a bridge with a parachute. I think he's crazy.

On the way from Ogden, UT to Twin Falls, ID, we decided to take a trip to see the City of Rocks. On the way there, we ran into a cow round up (which seemed more like a cowjam - like a traffic jam, Rollie, except that it was cows, not cars, slowing us down). This roundup had everything: cows (of course), horses, and real cowboys!! The cowboys helped us out by giving us directions to just keep driving. One cow decided he wanted to cross the road in the other direction and almost walked into our car.

Tomorrow, when I buy a cable to get video to the computer from my camera, I can add a video of the roundup.

When people in our country moved across the United States all the way to California, some of them came through Idaho (that's where I am now, if you don't remember). Some of the places they saw, the named, because it reminded them of something else. The City of Rocks is one of those places. They named it the City of Rocks because the big rocks reminded them of city buildings. Here's a little video that shows some of the pictures we took in the City of Rocks.

Did you know? Idaho is know for potatoes. You can see many many potato fields in Idaho. They are so proud of their potatoes here that they even mention them on their cars' license plates.

We came all of the way out here so that Chad could learn to jump from a bridge with his parachute. Nancy and Aunt Shell do not want him to do this, but he's going to do it anyway. Nancy took some pictures of the bridge that he is going to jump off of, so here's a little video of some of those pictures that she took.