Coeur D' Alene Idaho, Day #3

Today's adventure was centered around a book called Mudgy & Millie.

A Coeur D'Alene resident wrote the book and we bought it and decided to do it with Rachel since the weather was so so.  The book starts with a little hike out to a point on Tubbs Hill where Mudgy and Millie are swimming and decided to play hide and seek.

Hiking out on Tubbs Hill to the beginning of the story.

 You read a few pages in the story and then move on to the next point.

Reading the 1st few pages.

 We were then on our way back to the 1st statue of Mudgy and Millie.  Rachel wanted to walk on all the "Big" rocks as we headed back down the trail. She was so funny on this little bit of a hike.

 Off the trail walking on the rocks.

We found the 1st statue.  This is Mudgy with Millie up in his antlers hiding. 

So the next point we go to is the library.  So we walked across the baseball field and let Rachel run around the grass and into the dugouts and then found our next statue.

#2 The Library

 Up close of Mudgy & Millie so you can actually see Millie hiding in the antlers.

After the library Mudgy decides to see if Millie is shopping so we got to walk along Sherman street to see some of the shops.  We stopped in a candy store and bought four pieces of chocolate.

Yes these little pieces of chocolate cost $1.75 each.  I'm not sure it was worth it but they were pretty good.  Sometimes you just have to splurge on vacation.

#3 3rd & Sherman Street 

At this point we decided we would eat lunch.  We were going to go eat at Hudson's but when we walked in and looked at the menu and it only had hamburgers and pie we decided we had better go somewhere else that Rachel would actually have something to eat.  So we went around the corner to the Mexican joint.  The food was good and really cheap.  After lunch it was back to our adventure.  We had to walk over to the park.  I of course forgot the camera in the diaper bag so I had to run back to the car to get it so we could finish taking our pictures of each statue.  We got to number four which was the city park.

 #4 City Park - Mudgy takes a nap.

While Mudgy takes a nap Millie goes and plays on this playground.  This playground was awesome.  We actually let Rachel play here every day we came into Coeur D'Alene.  After about 1/2 an hour playing we headed to the last spot.

#5 Independence Point - We found Millie yeah.  (Millie fell onto his nose if you can't tell from the picture).  

The wind started to really pick up and Scott was trying not to get wet from the waves crashing up on the wall he was standing on to get this picture.  We finished the walk and it was now time to go back to the condo.  We had promised swimming in the pool with Rachel after we finished.  So we swam that night for fun and Rachel did really good in the pool.  We got her off the stairs a few times and we were the only ones in the pool.  So nice.