Shopping and horse ride

July 18 – Today was shopping in Rexburg!  Oh joy! 

Our first stop was Wal-mart to drop off a script, then to the Ford dealer.  Bill has called last week about ordering the little clips to secure the bottom part of the front bumper and they said they’d need to see it.  So they saw it and ordered the clips.

Next was to find the JC Penney store that is listed when I google “shopping Rexburg” and the cataract doctor.  Well, in seaching for the Penney’s we landed at an optometrist office and they said to get the sun “overglasses” like Bill got from his cataract surgery would be $50.  I told him no, I’d order them online.  He wants a pair to wear while weed eating to protect his regular glasses and a pair to wear.   While in the office I told him to ask about Penney’s.  There is none.

We were just a few blocks from ACE so he dropped me there to do my return then we circled the block and went to Great Harvest Breads for lunch.  I’d seen them in several places this side of the Mississippi and thought we’d give them a try.  First, what nice people there.  The staff and owner were very nice and we never felt rushed to order or leave.  They give out whole slices of their breads to try before picking what you want for your sandwich.  The sandwiches were huge and come with chips so I saved the chips for at home.  I was stuffed!  Bill couldn’t resist the little cinnamon buns they had for$1 for his dessert.  We talked a long time with the owner and she gave us a loaf of pumpkin chocolate chip bread.  Not a little mini loaf, a full size loaf.  I think she was about to put it on mark down as day old but we didn’t mind at all.  Bill said we will come back there again!

In one of the magazines we picked up yesterday I read about Rexburg’s history, the flood of

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1976 and the damage it did to their 1926 Carousel.  That was all I needed to know, so we hunted down the city park and I got to ride the restored 1926 Carousel for $1.25.  The music is the original rolls made in Ohio in the 1920’s.  Bill says I was the only adult but there were 2 others (with their kids and grandkids). 

I picked up a few sale items in Albertson’s and a piece of dry ice, then for my dessert I bought a Frosty from the Wendy's across the street and ate it while doing my shopping in Wal-mart.  Bill found some over glasses sunglasses in the Vision Center there for $24 so he was happy.  I got a new extra water hose to replace the one we sold to the “little old man” and our groceries and we headed towards the homestead!

Bill exited the highway in St. Anthony’s to find a store that we were told sells the best huckleberry ice cream.  Actually, we were quite surprised at the size of the town.  It was much larger than we expected as we only see an industrial area along the highway.  We found a Broulim’s grocery but didn’t see anything that we thought was what we were looking for.

Once we were home and unloaded we took a break and then I made Chicken Parmesan for dinner and for dessert we had raspberry cookie bars that Sue made and brought over.  They were quite tasty.