UncleSamBailey: Ranch Idaho Pizza and other stuff....

My niece Emily M, adopted two kids from Ethiopia last fall. Today, they were all sealed in the Twin Falls, Idaho temple. So, we decided to take a road trip to Idaho. Not our usual vacation destination. We went via Carson City, where we stayed overnight with our friends, the Halls. The drive over the Sierras was beautiful.

We had lovely BBQ at their house, and a couple of games of Butthead (yes, really) and BS aka Liar aka I Doubt It. Their girls are fun, and it was fun to see them again. I wish we lived closer.

We were supposed to be in Twin Falls by 4:30 or so for a 5:00 pm time at the temple. We figured it was eight hours from Carson City, so we left at about 7:30 so we'd have lots of time. The drive through Nevada was just about as exciting as you would expect.

Although the skies were gorgeous. We found out that Winnemucca bills itself as "The Gateway to the Pacific Northwest". I know I always think of Winnemucca when I think of the Pacific NW.

Unfortunately, in our planning, we forgot that Idaho is on Mountain Time, not Pacific Time. As we crossed the border into Idaho, big sign saying "Mountain Time". Uh Oh, now, it's not 3:00, its 4 pm and we're still 25 mins from Twin Falls. We got there, checked in, changed quickly and headed to the temple, which was fortunately not too far away.

Em's family looked beautiful all dressed in white, and she was surprised to see us. I didn't tell her we were coming. Nyah and Nathaniel are fun, happy, delightful kids and it was great to finally meet them, and to catch up with their siblings, who we haven't seen in a couple of years.

After the temple, we went to Gertie's Brick Oven Pizza for dinner. It's a pizza buffet, but instead of a buffet table, they send servers around with different kind of pizza and you just take what you want. We got our salads and sat down. The first pizzas by were; Hamburger Ranch, Chicken Bacon Ranch, Veggie Ranch, Chicken Cashew Ranch and Pepperoni Ranch. I finally asked if they actually had tomato sauce...by this time Sam was speculating about the Great American Tomato Shortage. Later, they came by with Ranch Idaho pizza...ranch sauce, hash browns, bacon and onions. Then dessert pizzas; strawberries and cream, Oreo, Butterfinger, Smores, Reese's. I didn't try most of those, they seemed like sugar overload.

After dinner, we wanted to see Shoshone Falls. It was close by, so we all went. It was spectacular. These pics are just with my cellphone, Sam used an actual camera and they will be much better.

Then we drove over to where the bridge goes over the gorge. There were BASE jumpers parachuting off the bridge into the gorge, but we watched a spectacular sunset there.