Nick gets really bored on his days off, so when he has the whole weekend off we try and get out off the house and explore. Nick had the idea to head up to the Boise Depot on Friday, and it was such a good idea! It had a beautiful view of downtown Boise, gardens, awesome water features and Big Mike. Big Mike is the huge train engine in the pictures. The actual Depot wasn't open that day but we had a lot of fun walking around and enjoying the view.
After we finished at the Depot we went down to Julia Davis park, which is similar to William Land Park in Sacramento. There is a pond with ducks, geese that walk around everywhere, a rose garden, the zoo and like three museums (Art, Natural History and Black History). It's pretty cool, but we were going for free so we ran after geese, played in the park, said hello President Lincoln, and walk around the little Lewis and Clark trail that they had.
During my search to find activities for the weekend I came across a free event on Saturday at the mall called Reindeer Games. They had a bunch of fun things for kids including crafts, games, face painting and Santa! Sienna enjoyed the crafts and loved that she won her very own stuffed reindeer in one of the games, which she named Snowy. She was very excited for Santa until it actually came time to talk to him and then she wanted to keep her distance. She did better with Mrs. Claus and the snow princess but still insisted on me holding her. She also got a light up snowflake wand which has already become a new favorite toy.
It was a great weekend! I love that we have been able to find so many fun things for our family to do in our new home. We are looking forward to our next exploring adventure.
