And the party just goes on...

Even though my kids have gone back to school, it still feels like we're on vacation. (Well, to me. Maybe not to them!) My in-laws are in town to move my SIL up here, and another SIL drove over from Boise with her kids to help out and see people. The kids have been having a delightful time with their cousins. Today while my school-age kids were in class, we took everyone else to the flood museum, which they had never seen. In 1976, the Teton Dam broke, flooding a MASSIVE area of southern Idaho and destroying whole towns. You can still drive out and see the ruined dam. We live pretty close to the Teton River--I'm sure the place where our house is now was under deep water that day. They had a film about it--even though the footage is washed out and faded from long ago, watching that wall of water come in and lift whole brick houses off the ground and carry them off was eerily reminiscent of the Japanese tsunami of last year. We also looked around the museum itself, which is a slice of life from the history of SE Idaho. The funny thing was, there was an organ donated by my FIL's cousin (as in music, not as in liver), and a dentist chair that my MIL is pretty sure she once sat in (one that has made her recoil from dentists ever since...). I know other people live in the same place for generations, but we are simply not used to having any historical connections to places we live. It's different--and interesting!

We will likely get another visitor tonight, as my husband's cousin is coming in to start a new semester in college and due to a flight delay, will come in very, very late. And he doesn't have a key yet to his apartment. And it's supposed to get down to -8 degrees tonight. It's no problem, because we're here. But I think of kids coming in who find themselves in this situation and don't know anyone around to stay with, and I freak out just a bit. It's cold!!

Hoping it's warmer where you are... :)