Thursday 9-22-22 Idaho Falls - Riverwalk & More

 

Overcast Morning

It rained through the night into the early morning. When Larry woke up the rain had stopped. It was overcast and windy. Larry turned on the heater. I crawled out of bed at 7:30, got dressed and turned on the oven to make french toast sticks. The oven started to heat up the Minnie so Larry turned off the heater. 

After breakfast we walked to town to do a little touristy stuff. There's a very nice walk/bike trail that goes around the river and through our RV Park. We walked the trail from the park to downtown Idaho Falls. The first place we stopped was The Japanese Friendship Garden. It's a beautiful garden with streams that run through it. It was here the first bridge to span the Snake River in Eastern Idaho was built. The garden was built to celebrate 30 years of associating with their Japanese sister city Toai-Mura. It was built by volunteers. There is a path that weaves throughout the park. It was very nice. Next we walked the River Walk for about a mile. The section we walked was the Idaho Falls, there was a lot of them. It was gorgeous. The walk took us through a very well manicured park. Some of the trees were shaped as animals such as a moose and bear with a wild hog. There were seats along the walk in shapes of animals such as a horse and Canadian geese. They have beautiful flowers gardens. As you walk the area there were signs about the falls and how they generate power. They use turbine generators, that are under the falls. We saw a gorgeous Mormon Temple. After walking around we headed back to the Minnie.

Japanese Friendship Garden

 

One of falls from the garden

 

Moose

Sitting on the horse bench

The bear and wild hog bush

 

Some of the Idaho Falls

 

More of the falls

On the way back we stopped at the Art Museum of Eastern Idaho. It is a small museum showing local artist works and most of the art was for sale. We weren't there too long but it was a very nice facility. It cost $4.00 for adult and $3.00 for adults over 65. Then we walked across the street and down a couple of blocks to Carstens' Bakery, where we bought a few donuts: huckleberry iced donut, huckleberry lemon filled donut, apple sauce donut and a twist donut. Then we walked to a nice park and ate two of them. We saved two for dessert. By the time we got back to the Minnie we had walked 5 miles. It was a nice walk.  

Entrance to The Art Museum

For lunch we had soup and shared the other two donuts. We spent the rest of the day relaxing with a good book. I took a break from reading around 2:00 and walked around the park for an hour.

After dinner I walked for another hour. Then I finished my steps in place. I ended up doing 29,000 steps, which put me in 6th place in my group. I need another 5,500 steps to be caught up. We had a super day.