Summer Vacation: Day 11

I told you I would post pictures of the giant cupcake we made for our friends who just moved into a new apartment. We bought the cupcake pan at Porter's and this was our first attempt to make it. It was really hot that day, and our frosting was thin to begin with so you can see that it kind of melted. Not the best thing we've ever made, but here it is.



The roof - Chad's work. With Necco wafer chimney.



We put our friends on the cake in frosting - Mom, Dad and little unknown-gender baby (except we recently found out they're having a girl!)


The back of the house.


In other news - we rented a tandem kayak this last weekend since Chad got Saturday off. (YAY!) It was $15 for the day, but since it was Saturday, we had it until Monday. We packed some sandwiches and took it out to Rigby Lake (which now costs $5 to get into - $6.50 if you don't have cash and have to pay with a credit/debit card.... boooooo....).
We pass this lake frequently since it's on the way to Idaho Falls - it always looks so nice and cool on a hot day. So we went finally. Unfortunately, you can see the whole lake from one place, so it wasn't too exciting. We took the kayak out for 20 minutes (tops) before we got bored. We dipped our feet in the lake, tried to swim, but only got in to our waists because the water was SOOOO cold.


Rigby Lake.

Hehehe... he's white.

Getting ready to go out

Yummy lunch.

On Sunday after church, we headed up to Island Park. It was a long way to go for about an hour on the water, but it reaffirmed our thought that it would be more fun up there. We went out on the reservoir created by the Island Park Dam. The lake is HUGE AND IT'S FREE! We got to explore a little bit, but the most wildlife we saw were (was?) some chipmunks. The only thing was the fear of powerboats coming zipping by and tipping us over. We never saw one even close to where we were, but we may not be that lucky next time. But we have decided that should we rent a kayak again, we should skip Rigby Lake, and go straight to Island Park. (They rent kayaks up there, but only single ones for $12.50 - so for both of us, it would be $25.00 - and we're not sure they let you take them anywhere besides floating the river their business is on.)

Saturday night we went to the opening ceremonies for the Idaho International Folk Dance Festival which (mostly) Rexburg hosts every year.
Countries were: Chinese Taipei, Japan, Russia, Lithuania, U.S., Mexico, Germany, South Korea, and one other that I can't think of right now.
The opening ceremonies were in the stadium at BYU-I - all the countries marched in, then one by one presented a gift to the Governor's office, received a gift from the Governor's office, and then presented a dance. Afterwards, there was a laser show (in lieu of fireworks) that ended up being pretty lame. Which is too bad because in talking to our friends who were in charge of getting volunteers for the week, we found out that the guy in charge of the laser show has been working on it since November. We decided it could have been really cool indoors with theater haze for the lasers to shine through, but as it was outside, all of the haze just blew away, and it was pretty lame.

Group dance.


Us.

Laser Show - There were two screens, but they only used one of them for unknown reasons.