5 days ago
Monday, July 21, 2008
Together with Fe & Scott and their families we watched the 75th Annual Ogden Pioneer Days Rodeo. Our new friend Mel came with us too. It's my first time to watch the rodeo and we had a lot of fun! We came there a few minutes before the rodeo starts and they had a pre-rodeo entertainment like wild cow milking, Muttin Bustin, Whoopie Girls & Sky Divers. I got to take pictures of the sky divers. Here they are...The rodeo started at 7:30 and they had a lot of activities like bareback riding, team roping, clown act, steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding, tie down roping, barrel racing, bull riding and motor cross. Here's some pictures we took..Have fun looking!
Bull Riding
Motor Cross
Andrew had a lot of fun. He was dancing and cheering almost the whole time. I managed to take a short video of him dancing and having fun! The rodeo was done about 11pm and on our way home Andrew didn't stop talking about what he was seeing for the night.
Both Fe and I found a new friend. Fe met Lisha (they just moved in to their neighborhood) and I met Mel at Lowe's last month and we started communicating since then. We decided to get together and just eat and talk so we can get to know each other better. We had a lot of fun and never stop laughing the whole time. I'm glad to have found new friends and I'm grateful for all of my friends who's always there for me both here in the US and in the Philippines... I love you all!
Me & Mel
Lisha, Mel, Fe & Camilla
“True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes.”
Sunday, July 20, 2008
On our way home from Boise , we took the Thousand Springs Scenic Byway, it's one of Idaho's scenic byways. Our first stop was the Hagerman Museum and Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument.
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument contains the largest concentration of Hagerman Horse fossils in North America. The Monument is internationally significant because it protects the world's richest known fossil deposits from a time period called the late Pliocene epoch, 3.5 million years ago. These plants and animals represent the last glimpse of time that existed before the Ice Age, and the earliest appearances of modern flora and fauna.
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument contains the largest concentration of Hagerman Horse fossils in North America. The Monument is internationally significant because it protects the world's richest known fossil deposits from a time period called the late Pliocene epoch, 3.5 million years ago. These plants and animals represent the last glimpse of time that existed before the Ice Age, and the earliest appearances of modern flora and fauna.
Our next stop was Hagerman National Fish Hatchery. The Hagerman National Fish Hatchery (NFH) is located along the Snake River, about 30 miles west of Twin Falls, Idaho. Under the Lower Snake River Fish and Wildlife Compensation Plan (LSRCP), over 1.2 million steelhead are produced annually to mitigate for fish and wildlife losses caused by the construction of four dams on the lower Snake River (Lower Granite, Little Goose, Lower Monumental, Ice Harbor). The hatchery also produces 130,000 Rainbow trout to mitigate for Dworshak Dam in northern Idaho.The hatchery was located in the Thousand Springs area to take advantage of the spring-fed water with a flow rate of approximately 30,000 gallons per minute.
Thousand Springs & Salmon Falls
Fishing Falls & Payne's Perry
Bosie Idaho Temple is the 15th temple I've seen.
After going to the temple we wanted to go to the World Center for Birds of Prey but unfortunately, they were already closed when we came.
Snake River Canyon is a large canyon formed by the Snake River in the Magic Valley region of southern Idaho. 
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Perrine Bridge crosses the canyon immediately north of Twin Falls. In places the canyon is 500 feet (166 meters) deep and 0.25 miles (0.41 kilometers) wide.
Perrine Bridge crosses the canyon immediately north of Twin Falls. In places the canyon is 500 feet (166 meters) deep and 0.25 miles (0.41 kilometers) wide.
Shoshone Falls, known as "The Niagara of the West", is one of the true great waterfalls of the North American continent. The falls of the Snake River plunge 212 feet over a horseshoe shaped formation over 900 feet in width. At 212 feet, the falls are higher than Niagara Falls.
The name Shoshone was given to the waterfall in honor of a tribe of Native Americans who inhabited the area. The USGS officially adopted the name in 1905.
Latitude 42.59507 N
Longitude 114.40064 W
Elevation 3263 feet
USGS Quadrangle Twin Falls 7 1/2"
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