The Old Penitentiary

Last weekend my family came to visit. While they where here we went to the Old Idaho State Pen. Some people find it to be a creepy place. I though it was neat.

This is the front entrance.

I love the old sandstone buildings. The prisoners actually did most of the construction.

This high tower is part of the entrance building. Not a place that the prisoners could go.

A riot in the 70's left some of the structures in ruins. This was a cafeteria that was designed by one of the prisoners.

Or in other words, GET BACK TO WORK.

This cell building is four stories tall. One of the prisoners decided not to let the State of Idaho execute him so he did the job him self via swan dive from the 4th floor.

This cell building is also four stories tall. You may notice the addition of a ceiling above the second floor. This is to prevent suicide attempts.

The 4th of July

For the weekend of the 4th. We went to Utah to visit Jen's Family.

This is Jen's sister on the water slide. To make it faster we tried different things such as dish soap and cooking oil.

Here is Jarom before the awesome sunburn.

David (Jen's Brother) also got a good burn. Though we had a lot of fun.

And a random photo of the flag.

We went up to a lake and hung out with Jen's dad. The weather was great and the water was cold.

Ducks!

Willow Creek

After two nights in the wilderness we started back for Boise and took some cool pictures on the way.

This part of the river was very shallow.

We found a ton of butterflies.

This is a hot spring that was very very very hot. Not for dipping.

A little further down the road we found our friends and went camping with them for two nights. It was a load of fun. Here we are playing Ninja.

The game Ninja is a lot of fun because you get to slap your opponent.

This is a secret message that Jen left for Jarom.

We did find a hot spring that was nice enough to dip in.

And we both went fishing.