Chubbuck Days

 

For several years our trips home landed on the weekend of Chubbuck Days.  We loved the Chubuck Days parade.  They got the parade thing right with lots and lots of candy.  Last year, which was not a year we were visiting, it was the same weekend as Zoofari at the Pocatello zoo.  Zoofari is an event at the zoo where they have bounce houses, music, and all types of ice cream at all the zoo exhibits.  You pay admission and can eat all the ice cream you want.  I was so sad that we missed that last year.  I told Mike and Holly when we moved back we all had to make the Chubbuck days trip an annual event.  So when it rolled around this year we packed up our trucks on Thursday night and headed to Chubbuck.  Luckily GG and Gpa have lots of extra rooms. 

 

We hauled down a trailer full of trex decking and Mike and Russ re-surfaced Mom and Dad's deck on Friday.  It looked really great when they were done.  Dad took the day off to help and they got the job done in a day.  Friday night Mom and Rissie put on the Graves backyard olympics.  The olympics were complete with a program, flags, an opening ceremony, numbers for participants, games, certificates, and gold medal baggies (of candy).  Games included fence to fence (a foot race), jousting, doughnuts on a string, long jump, etc.  Go GG and Rissie.  It started our sugary weekend off to a great start.

 

Saturday morning we geared up for a full day of more sugar.  We started off right at the parade.  The candy throwage did not disappoint. Just when you wanted to leave (because parades are really pretty boring), a new shower of candy came through to save the day.  We had a low key afternoon and went to zoofari in the evening.  The best part of zoofari, next to the ice cream, was seeing Shauna.  After I paid I turned around to walk in and Shauna was standing there.  A few weeks before I had talked to her and told her we were coming for Chubbuck days that weekend.  She decided to come up from Malad but forgot her cellphone and couldn't call to see where we were.  It just happened that she caught us at the right time at the zoo.  It was fun to see her and her cute kids.  We finished the day with plenty of ice cream.  Believe it or not my kids still got some sleep that night.  Hats off to high sugar tolerance.

 

Chubbuck Days weekend is a do-over.