Idaho Falls

A few weeks ago, after school got out for summer, we decided to take a little day trip to Idaho Falls. The kids had seen a billboard advertising the Titanic exhibit and they were dying to go see it. Our whole family seems to be into history, so of course Eric and I weren't going to miss an opportunity to take the kids to see something to neat! We were not disappointed! Of course, being a museum they don't allow cameras inside, so no pics of anything inside the museum. When you enter they give you a card. On the card it has all the information for an actual passenger that was aboard Titanic. It gives you a name, age, who they traveled with and why they were traveling. Also their cabin # and class. You walk through the exhibit and see artifacts that have been recovered. There were tiny perfume bottles and the sign said that they still smell like they would have then. They have pictures and stories, menus for what each class of person ate while aboard, and the kid's favorite part was the giant glacier that they had. You were supposed to touch it and see how long you could stand to have your hand on it. They said that the night that Titanic sank the water was even colder than that glacier and at that temp. a person could only live about 3 minutes. Sad I thought. Not the way I want to go I don't think. I could only hold my hand on the glacier for about 17 seconds before it hurt and I had to pull back. At the end of the exhibit, they had a huge passenger log on the wall where you can find the name of the person on your card and see if they lived or died. Our whole family survived except Logan. His name was Mr. William Arthur Lobb, age 30, from Scranton, Pennsylvania. he was accompanied by his wife. They were 3rd class passengers. They were returning home, where William worked as an engineer for the Lackawanna Railroad. They had been in Cornwall, England, to visit William's family following the death of his brother. William was very proud to be aboard Titanic. He sent a postcard featuring a picture of Titanic to his parents, writing: "This is a picture of the largest steamer built."

Our Boading Pass

These are all of our tickets and the stories that go with them.

One of the the tickets with the story of a 6 year old girl.

After we were done at the museum we stopped for a few pictures by the falls. Those I can share.