Here we are in Nampa, Idaho just about to head to the Opening Ceremonies for the Special Olympics World Winter Games.

It was a good drive out, very scenic and very little snow.  I think we had about 10 miles of snow covered road as we drove into Idaho from Montana, but otherwise, the roads were dry.

The kids have done well while travelling.  Jonathan was happy as punch sitting in his seat with a DVD player in front of him as he watched movie after movie.  His only complaint was that his bum was getting sore after a couple of longer days.

With the larger group of us, it was difficult to plan for exact rest stops, so I prepared well for it.  I put geocaches into my GPSr for almost every potential rest stop or town that we might need to stop at.  When someone would pipe up that they needed a ’stop’, I’d look up the nearest geocache and that would mark the distance to the stop.

The scenery was fantastic.  We took some pictures of Painted Canyon in Theodore Roosevelt National Park as we drove by.  Too bad we didn’t have time for a stop, very pretty.  We did make a point of stopping at Shoshone Falls in Twin Falls Idaho.  They call this the Niagara of the West.  At 212 feet, the falls is 36 feet higher than Niagara and it has a 900ft wide falls at its springtime peak flow.

I’ll be posting some pictures in the gallery, stay tuned.