Last Hoorah!! (For Reals This Time!)

Ok so I guess I fibbed last time thinking that our BL trip was our last trip before school started again. I thought it was, but my awesome husband took me on a little last minute trip to Boise this weekend, which IS right before school starts, so this WAS the last trip! Haha

So we left Friday afternoon, after going to the gym, for the last time for 4 months, for me :(. And the first thing we did after arriving, after dropping our things at the hotel of course, was go to.... {"pause for effect" -Gru} Cabela's! Big surprise eh?! ;) And after we finally got out of Cabela's we went to the mall and walked around both floors! Which took a good 2 hours... It's huge! And then we finally went to eat! That's always my favorite part, because I am Always hungry!

Out of the many yummy places to eat in Boise, we decided on eating at the Cheesecake Factory since we had never eaten there before. It was good! There menu was a Book! that had everything from Chinese to Italian to Mexican to American food! :) And Tommy's favorite part was the dessert, cheesecake of course! {Not mine! I am not a fan of cheesecake! Especially the really thick kind, like the kind they serve :/ } But Tommy loves it, so I let him get any kind that he wanted! And he picked a chocolate mousse which was so rich that two tiny bites was way more than enough! The whipped cream was great though!!

 

Oh and the best part was the sugar rimmed raspberry lemonade!! It was THE BEST!!

 

And we ended the night with a movie at a 21 theater cinema! Again.. Huge! Then we finally made it back to the hotel with a King sized bed {classic tradition for us}, sadly it was hard, and three tiny worthless pillows.. Believe me, we have stayed in better hotels! I used to work for the same hotel chain in Bear Lake and I just kept saying, man if our hotel looked like this, our manager would have flipped! It was kind of ghetto.. And we didn't even get to go swimming in the pool because we were to pooped! But that's ok, by the way the halls looked, I'm betting the pool would have been scary!  :/

So anyways, the next morning we got up and Didn't miss the delicious continental breakfast {we did that on our first anniversary!} of waffles and weird, yellow sausage.. I'll just say, you get what you pay for haha.. And I always look forward to hot chocolate, and no hotel ever has it! But we started our day of right by going to the Boise temple {one more down!} and there was a total of three other couples, besides us, that were there, but it was a tiny room that only fit ten couples anyways.. it was a cute room :)

Trying to take a picture was really hard because the temple is so big and you can only back up so far before your in the street so this is the best I could do, and then we tried to take a selfie because there was no one to take one of us because there was a wedding. And none of the selfies worked out so great haha so we had someone real quick just take one of us, but you wouldn't be able to tell where we are.. but it's a good picture so I'm good with that!

 

 

After we got out of the temple we went to the Zoo! And a zoo's a zoo and once you've been to one, you've seen them all.. right? but they are still so cool and fun to go to! And neither one of us had been to one in a long time so it was fun! All the exotic animals were awesome, but of course my favorite animals were all the "kitties" or in the family of cats or even just looked like a cat :)

The lions :) Even though they are scary! They are still cute cuz they are kinda kittys, Big kittys! :)

And this guy was just cute! He looked really tired just hanging there on the gate while his wife and baby were playing :)

Our first photo booth thing :) We should have done color though, the black and white pictures didn't turn out very well... but still cute!! {And P.S.- For my family that see me squeeeeze my husband all the time because of how much I Love him!!.. (Especially Tam and Care) the last picture is for you!! That's our squeeeeze face! And my favorite picture too! :) }

I was really bummed that they didn't have any panda bears though :( they had a few red pandas but they are not even close to being the same!

And while at the Zoo we ate a very healthful lunch consisting of Keebler crackers and cheese/peanut butter {I like the peanut butter, Tommy likes the cheese :) }, a soft pretzel with cheese, licorice, and other junk food that I probably forgot about!

The next stop was.... Cabela's!! Again.. So I made Tommy drop me off at the mall while we went to Cabela's.. {I get bored there :/ } I made it one lap around the upper level of the mall and it was time to go! But I did find a cute skirt on sale! {the one in the background of our Zoo photo booth pictures}

So to end the night, on our way out we stopped at Texas Roadhouse {another classic tradition for us} and ate dinner! I, however, got a pulled pork sandwich instead of a steak.. I feel like kind of a betrayer because I didn't get a steak at the place where they serve the best steak! But I just wasn't feeling it ;)

And the very last stop on our way home was.....

Krispy Kreme!! Hot off the press!{Another classic tradition! We have a lot of them haha} We even waited probably like 20 min. watching them be made so we could get hot ones!
I'm pretty sure all the work I did at the gym this summer, getting back into shape again after last semester, was blown this weekend!!

And the last classic tradition we usually do but didn't this time was stopping at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory for a rocky road apple.. but we were too stuffed and had a lot of other treats in the car, so we decided against that one.. this time :)

So that was our last summer trip in a nutshell! Well, kind of a big nutshell.. And this was our last summer trip {for reals this time} cuz school starts Tomorrow!! Boo!! Yes, I am excited to be done! Just not so much excited to go back :( So the next four months are going to be devoted to school, studying, and getting fat!.. Again.. And I'm sorry for all the babbling in this post, I need to read some more in my maternity book {for school!!! ;) } and this post was just a procrastination.. hence all the talking and talking {typing}, but it's over now, and time to get to work :(

Peace!