Day 34 – Twin Falls, ID

Lots of activity this morning.  Don took me for a walk all the way around this rather spacious park, visiting a Doggie area that was large and grassy, and fitted out with a variety of ramps, tilt boards, and other paraphernalia that can be used in training your dog for agility trials.  I wasn’t interested; my agility is fine, thank you, I can still jump up into the truck.  They have a large pond, fed by a stream, where you can rent boats and float around.  Best of all, they have lots of nice grassy areas for running and rolling.  I got a nice greeting from my friend Moab as we passed by; she sure is a fine looking lady. 

We had a lot of cleanup work to do, Geri on the interior, and Don on the exterior.  We had collected half the bug population of southern Idaho on our way down from Idaho Falls, and they were all glued to the front of the coach.  Inside, Geri was dealing with the messes Don makes while he cooks.  We finally got our chores finished (mine was keeping out of the way), and got in the truck for a ride into Twin Falls.  We stopped first at the local Chamber of Commerce, where a sister of one of Geri’s friends back home works.  I didn’t participate in the gathering, but Geri told me that the lady was very pleased to see us, and they had fun talking with her. 

They had gotten the information from the Chamber lady that there were some jumpers who were going to go off the bridge today, so we headed down to the Visitor Center to check out what was happening.  Geri got the info from one of the jumpers that they were going in about an hour, so we decided to drive down to the bottom of the canyon and take a look at the golf course down there.  The road down the side of the chasm was very steep, and we went down it very slowly, which pleased Geri.  The scene at the bottom of the canyon was very lovely, and the golf course looked to be in great condition.  Like I know anything about golf; I just know great grass when I see it.  We got out for a walk, and I got to do some exuberant rolling in the beautiful grass. 

Bridge and River from the bottom

Look at that grass!

We climbed back up the canyon wall in the truck to get to our viewpoint to watch the jumpers, and found a nice young couple there who couldn’t stop petting me and telling me what a nice guy I am.  I just can’t get enough of that stuff.  We had a fairly long wait, but finally the jumpers got up on the bridge and, one by one, leapt off and floated down on their parachutes.  Their landing target was just below our perch, and Don got some pics of them floating down over the river.  They all landed very nicely, close to or right on the target.  Fun to watch, but not really something that I’d want to participate in.

We like seeing that chute open

Over the river

Right on target!

Geri and Don had a big surprise for me then; it was off to the local PetsMart for a date with the groomer, where I got a much needed bath and grooming.  The girl was very nice, and I appreciated her appreciation of my good manners and obvious pleasure in getting cleaned up.  When I rejoined Geri and Don, they gold me that they had driven upriver to see Shoshone Falls and Twin Falls, but that I hadn’t missed much excitement.  There was so much water being pulled out of the river for agricultural purposes that the falls were little more than a trickle.  Twin Falls was kind of interesting to Don, as they had dammed up one side of the falls a long time ago, and diverted the water to some power plants.  He questioned whether they should change the name of the town to Single Falls, or Only Child Falls, or something to indicate the changed status of this identifying feature. 

Shoshone Trickles

No Longer Twin Falls

We headed back to the coach, where Geri took me for a nice walk while Don cooked up some bratwurst (from Double D in Mountlake Terrace) and sauerkraut from San Diego, purchased in Spokane.  My plates were very good, and I particularly liked the taste of the sauerkraut.  Maybe I’m part German Shepherd.  Don and I worked on the Blog, and we all turned in fairly early.  We’re here for another day, as there is so much to see around here.  A full report tomorrow!  Das Vedanya!