Idaho Falls Duck Races

Yesterday afternoon, Todd & I went down to Idaho Falls to participate in their Duck Races. What you do is you go and "adopt" a duck for $5 and the money goes to keeping up the Green Belt. The Green Belt is this long strip that follows along the river. So anyway, we went and adopted our duck. Each duck is numbered and so all you get is a pamplet with your duck's number. Around 4 they dumped all the ducks in the river and then you sit and watch as they float on down. The first duck to go over the falls is the winner.

They had many different prizes for I think about 10 winners. The first prize got a brand new 2008 Pontiac Grand Prix. Then there were prizes for $1000 to Sams, $12oo to Fars Jewelery. The list goes on. So we were set for winning! But unfortunately so were like a thousand other people. We have yet to receive our call! Even though we didn't win anything it was fun just to go down and see what they do. Honestly when I first heard about it I seriously thought they were racing real ducks. It would have been kinda cool. But they were just little rubber ducks.

This was just after they dumped them in. They had people help move it along a little faster.

They're about to start going over.

And there they go.

Before the race we went and walked around all the venders. The had some neat things. I fell in love with a purse, but it was $54 and I just can't justify it. Sad, I know. We decided to splurge and got some snow cones. It was a fun afternoon. But like Todd said, once again it's an event that would be a little bit more fun if you were a kid, or had kids.