Utah Trip!!!: Part Two, Idaho

After landing in Salt Lake City, my aunt took us to Lava (per my request) to show me around where her and my mom grew up.

Alrighty, Welcome to Lava Hot Springs Idaho.

Here is a volcanic-like structure.

And now on to the real reason why we made the drive all the way to Idaho (okay 2 hours).

This House.

Yep, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath and a cellar. This is where my mom grew up and where my grandmother lived for a long time. It used to have a white picket fence, but it was no longer there. A lot of the homes that my aunt remembered from her childhood were vacation rentals. How weird is that. She could pay to stay in her old bishop's home for the summer.

Well, anyway, I took about a million pictures. I kept waiting for the owners to come out and yell at me, but no one ever did. :) Good thing too. The house looks amazing! So much so that we wondered it it too was a rental. Hmm.. still not confirmed.

Anyway,

This is the hospital where my mom was born.

My aunt says she, herself, wasn't born here because the doctor here was drunk so they drove her mom to another city with a sober doctor. Haha! It is now a hotel...

Now this house is my great aunt's. She still lives there, so we stopped by. She is like 90 something and when we caught her, she was mowing her lawn. Silly lady!

I took pictures of all kinds of houses, but I can't remember now who they belonged to. My aunt will have to tell me later. Whoops!

Now, This.Is.The.Place.

The Silver Grill Cafe.

My Grandfather and his brother (late husband of before mentioned great aunt), ran the Silver Grill. My mom worked there for them. It is now something like Joe's Restaurant, but my aunt said that the counter looks exactly the same. We went in and had cream soda and pie. It just seemed like the right small town thing to do.

And, in the way of sampling, this is what most of my pictures looked like. Cameron drove while I snapped pictures and aunt Veloy sat in the back and told us what we were looking at. It was our own personal driving tour.

This is the shed next to the milk man's house where he bottled milk for all the people before delivering it.

The hill where my mom and aunt and uncle would sled down in the winter.

The trout farm that my mom took us fishing at when we would visit grandma.

Smith's Trout Haven

After driving a while, we stopped at this little museum that used to be a bank.

We also did some shopping and got all of us some Lava memorabilia. haha.

It was an enjoyable day in Lava and I am glad we went. Next time, to the famous natural hot tubs and the giant Lava Pool.