FHE: The Rexburg Flood Museum

For over a year now, I've wanted to go to the Rexburg Flood Museum. Tonight Austin was in charge of FHE, so he surprised me with a spontaneous trip to the museum (thank you, thank you, Honey!). It was surprisingly very interesting. The museum does more than just talk about the flood of '73; it gives a simple history of the town. We found out all kinds of interesting stuff-for example:

• The US Navy commissioned a ship named the USS Rexburg which shipped out for the Pacific theater shortly after the end of WWII
• Rexburg's famous "R" Mountain is actually an extinct volcano
• Beaver Dick Park is named after an adventurous trapper who within a week lost his wife and all six of his children to disease.
• Approx. 80 billion gallons of water were released when the Teton Dam broke; while only 11 people were killed, the surrounding areas experienced one billion dollars worth of damage.

Rexburg isn't all that boring after all...

We're trying to get her to like museums at a young age.

A swimsuit from the '20s

You can't tell, but I'm trying to mimic this mannequin's classy pose.