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Runnin 4 Sweets
Have you had a bit of a sweet tooth lately? You’ve tried chocolate after chocolate and soda after soda trying to get rid of the sweet tooth, but nothing seems to work. You want that swiss chocolate you got on your mission, that famous root beer you have back home or that childhood candy you haven’t been able to find in years! There is now a solution just waiting around the corner for you.
Rexburg now has a candy and soda shop that will take you back to your childhood. Runnin 4 Sweets is a new candy shop in the Rexburg area that offers an assortment of candies and bottled sodas. They have a huge selection of candy from Europe and also other parts of the world. They have over 80 different root beers, which has made them the largest assortment of bottled sodas in Eastern Idaho.
Walking into Runnin 4 Sweets will be like a trip down memory lane. They have retro candy from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Some of the favorites being wax bottles, pop rocks, candy buttons or razzles. Besides the retro candy from the past they also offer those weird and unique candies as well that you may not find anywhere else.
Runnin 4 sweets is a candy shop you don’t want to miss out on visiting. It will help cure that sweet tooth you haven’t been able to get rid of and open up your eyes to the wonders of candy from all over the world.
Store Hours: Mon-Sat 11:00am-8:00pm
Phone: (208)359-2534
Address: 58 East Main Street, Rexburg, ID 83440
Fat Cats
Where can you find bowling, billards, mini golf, arcades, balladium and movies all in the same place? There’s only one place in Rexburg and that’s Fat Cats! This is a great place to spend time with friends or go out as a family. They have multiple different specials they offer if you want to do more then just one thing. They are an excellent family friendly location where everyone always feels welcome!
Bowling
Bowling at Fat Cats is probably the best thing about this location. The bowling alley has 16 different lanes, and a huge dining area. Often they will give away prices on special nights for those who can bowl a strike doing something crazy like bowling backwards. Probably the nicest thing about this bowling alley is it’s family friendly and smoke free.
Pricing: Monday- Friday before 6PM
$2.50/game or $13.00/hour
After 6PM $3.00/game or $14.00/hour
Friday after 6PM & Saturday All Day
$3.50/game or $14.00/hour
Shoe Rental $2.00
Billards
Who doesn’t like to pay pool on a Friday night? Most billiards are located in bars and aren’t the most inviting environment. The thing that sets this billiards room apart from anywhere else is the atmosphere. They have four different tables and a nice sitting area for people playing or just watching.
Pricing: Before 5PM $6.00 /person/hour
After 5PM $8.00/person/hour
Glow Golf
If you haven’t check out the glow mini golf course at Fat Cats it’s a must do! Their 9-hole course is themed with a pirate adventure. The set up is absolutely amazing, you would be crazy not to love it.
Pricing: $3.75/person/round
Balladium
What is balladium you ask? It’s an awesome adventure where you use canyons to shoot foam balls at people on the opposite team. You duck your head to miss being hit and scramble to find balls to shoot. It’s an adrenaline pumping interaction for sure that will leave you wanting to come back and do it again.
Pricing: Adults $3.00/round or Room $10/round
The Craze Fun Zone
Are you sitting at your apartment bored out of your mind? Feeling like there isn’t anything to do in Rexburg. Well think again! Head over to the Craze Fun Zone and check out what exciting attractions they have to offer.
They feature laser tag, mini golf, arcade games, a kiddie jungle for the little ones to pay in and a little cafe that serves pizza, chicken nuggets, sweet potato fries, and potato wedges.
This is the place to go for an evening of adventure for college students or even families with small children.
Lost City Laser Tag
The Craze’s laser tag is the best in the area it’s like entering into a whole different world. They can have a maximum of 30 people playing at the same time. Their arena is 4000 square feet and covers two floors so there isn’t a center divider between the two teams.
Pricing: First Game $6
Additional Games $2
Group Rates
The Craze Fun Zone also offers amazing group rates. They accommodate to family home evening groups, company parties, or big group dates. You can’t beat their group rates anywhere!
Pricing: Laser Tag 15-25 people $4
Laser Tag 25+ people $3
Galleria Black Light Mini Golf
Most mini golf courses are lit up all bright and happy. You can see exactly what you are doing each time you go to hit the ball. This mini golf course is a little more tricky because it’s dark with all but a few black lights. It’s exciting it’s fun and it’s a great way to get out of the house and enjoy a night away. In addition to the awesome golf course it’s also a very cheap way to have fun.
Pricing: First Game $3.50
Additional Games $1.50
Crazy Kiddie Jungle
For the younger visitors that come to the Craze there is an awesome kiddie jungle! There are tons of tubs that twist and wind around each other creating an adventure that will keep them occupied for hours. They also have some bouncy house the kids can play on. This is a great option for families with little kids especially during the winter months when they can’t get outside and play as much. There is a age restriction on the Crazy Kiddie Jungle though it’s age 8 and younger and also less then 70 pounds.
Pricing: Single All Day Pass $3
Arcade
Who doesn’t love a good arcade? Arcade games can be fun for all ages. You can battle your friends and win tickets that can be used to redeem great prizes. This arcade has some of the classic arcade games which include: Galaga, Frogger, and Mrs. PacMan. If you aren’t into the classic games but more modern the Craze has games such as Deal or No Deal. The arcade is a safe enjoy place for families or college students.
Pricing: (Tokens Only: $.25=1 token
The Cable Factory
If your looking for a way to cool down this weekend then the place to be in the Cable Factory. What is the Cable Factory you might ask? It is a wake boarding park that doesn’t require a boat to be in the water. They use a cable to pull the wake boarders around to the different jumps and boxes. At the Cable Factory they also have a nice sandy beach and fishing. So if you want to spend some time at the Cable Factory without actually getting in the water you can lay out to tan or bring your pole and try and catch some dinner. The nice thing about fishing at the Cable Factory is there is no fishing license required. Don’t waste another minute and head over to the Cable Factory to see how good you can tare up the water!
Pricing:
Yellowstone Bear World
Did you recently take a trip to Yellowstone but not see any bears or very many wild animals? Often times those wild animals you want to see don’t want to be seen, but at Bear World thats a different story. Yellowstone Bear World is a wild life drive through park where you will see Rocky Mountain Elk, Bison, White-tail Deer, Mule Deer, Rocky Mountain Goats, Moose and of course American Black Bear, Grizzly Bear and Gray Wolves. This gives you the opportunity to see those animals that you didn’t see in the wild.
Bear World also offers different experiences you can’t get very many other places. They have baby bear cub bottle feedings as well as Curator tours of the wild life drive through park. These two experiences are an extra cost but included in your admission to the park to get full access to the petting zoo. The petting zoo has barn yard animals and sometimes on occasion bottle fed fawns or elk calves will be in the petting zoo as well.
Directions: Located just off US 20 it can be easily excessed from Jackson, Wyoming and West Yellowstone, Montana. This short drive from Rexburg is only about 10 minutes towards Rigby you won’t miss it.
6010 S Bear World Road, Rexburg ID 83440
Hours: Open 7 Days/Week 9am-6pm
Phone: 208.359.9688
Price:
Adults- $16.95
Children (3-10)- $10.95
Carload Rate (7 passengers)- $74.95
Playmill Theatre West Yellowstone
If your looking for a fun night whether for a date or with the roommates the Playmill Theatre is the place for you! The Playmill is a live theatre where members of the cast are involved with audience in many ways. When you first arrive at the Playmill members of the cast first show you to your seat. They pull members out of the audience to participate and also have sing-alongs for some of the shows. Each season the Playmill does different plays so you could go see several different plays every year. This 2015 season has Mary Poppins and the Foreigner which is a comedy.
Pricing: Depending on the seats the prices vary slightly.
The tickets price ranges from $19.50-$22.00.
Monday-Thursday children under the age of 12 and seniors over the age of 65 get $2.00 off
Directions:
Despite my blog being about places and activities to do in Eastern Idaho this activity is slightly just outside of Idaho. The Playmill is located in West Yellowstone in Montana, but it is well worth the hour and a half drive from Rexburg.
29 Madison Ave.
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
The directions to the Playmill are quit simple you get on US 20 E and follow that until getting into West Yellowstone. Once you get to West Yellowstone you turning left onto Madison Ave. and the destination will be on the left.
4th of July Celebration
If your stuck in Rexburg for the 4th of July and are looking for different things to do one of the best 4th of July celebrations in the area is in Idaho Falls. Every year Melaleuca puts on a beautiful 4th of July Celebration on the Green Belt by the Snake River.
This event is completely free you just have to find a place to sit to watch the fireworks. The awesome thing about their firework show is they sync music from a radio station to the fireworks so while you watch you also get the patriotic music that goes a long with freedom and celebrating the 4th of July. Fireworks begin at approximately 10:00 PM. BRING YOUR RADIO TUNED TO KLCE 97.3FM! The fireworks are FREE!
Besides the fireworks on the night of the 4th they also have different activities and booths set up around the river. This is a great opportunity to get out and support the locally owned booths. Idaho Falls also has a really great 4th of July parade that is fun to sit and watch. Really you could spend the whole day in Idaho Falls to a vary of different activities. You don’t want to miss out on this amazing firework show that is completely free to the public!
If you don’t want to fight the traffic of the 4th of July Celebration by the river in Idaho Falls there is also a really great 4th of July celebration in Menan. This is great for people in Rexburg because Menan is even closer to Rexburg so there isn’t as much of a commute. They have a pretty awesome parade, then booths and games in the park all day and at dusk of course the fireworks.
St. Anthony Sand Bar
With highs getting into the 90s this next week it’s time to hit those popular swimming holes to cool off. One swimming area located on the Snake River is in St. Anthony. This swimming area is known as the Sand Bar. It’s been a popular swimming spot for locals for over 60 years. One nice thing about the Sand Bar is that is absolutely free to use.
Some different amenities that the sandbar offers is shelters, picnic tables, a water slide, a playground, sand boxes, a roped area for swimming and a diving board. The only downside to the Sandbar is that it’s swim at your own risk. There isn’t ever a life guard on watch. The city of St. Anthony encourages people to always have a swim buddy if they are in the water and not to swim alone.
Be very cautious when swimming at the Sand Bar. Always be aware of your surroundings and if the river is running high or fast probably stay closer to shore. People have drowned here in the past so it’s important to be aware of whats going on with the river and around you while swimming.
Directions:
South 3rd East near 1st South St. Anthony, Idaho
Approximately 20 minutes from Rexburg.
From Rexburg take highway 20 towards St. Anthony. Take the St. Anthony downtown exit. Go North on Bridge St. Turn Right on Main St. Turn Right on N 3rd E. Park is at the end of 3rd on the right hand side.
Squealers Fun Park
Are you looking for some outdoor activities to do in this beautiful weather? Squealers Fun Park is the best solution for you! They offer many different activities and pricing packages to choose from and are perfect for roommate outings, dates, or family home evening. This is also a place where all ages can come and enjoy!
Squealers most popular attraction is probably their go-cart track. They also have a climbing wall, bouncy houses, mini-golf, batting cages, and bumper boats. Seasonal they have a corn maze and also an ice skating rink.
Directions:
Squealers is conveniently located just off of highway 20 at the Rigby exit.
439 North 4000 East, Rigby, Idaho 83442
Squealers Fun Park is easy peasy to find. Take Highway 20 to the North Rigby Exit and West Frontage Road toward Rigby Lake. We’re just a little way down the road on the left hand side. The park is clearly sign posted so you can’t get lost!
Pricing:
Squealers offers different session times Early Mornings 11 am- 2pm, Afternoon Antics 2 pm- 5 pm, Early Evenings 5 pm-8 pm and Exciting Evenings 8 pm-close.
Each of these sessions are Adults & Children (54″ and taller) $15.00
Children Age 4 & older (up to 54″ tall) $10.00
Toddler Ages 0-3 $8.00
Contact information
208-745-5115
Green Canyon Hot Springs
Hot springs have become a very popular attraction for people to travel. In Eastern Idaho we have several hot springs one of which is Green Canyon Hot Springs, located just about 40 minutes away from Rexburg. This hot springs is unique in that it has a big indoor pool as well as a hot springs pool that has a cover that can be taken on and off. Mostly during the summer they have the top taken off and you can look up at the stars in the sky while sitting in the hot springs.
Admission: 2 years and older 1 year and under
Regular Rate:
Single Entry: $6.25 $2.00 includes 1 swim diaper
Day Pass: $7.50 $2.00 provide your own swim diapers
Discount Rate:
Single Entry: $5.75 $2.00 includes 1 swim diaper
Day Pass: $7.00 $2.00 provide your own swim diapers
Discounts:
Group Rate: Group of 12 or more.
Family Rate: Dad and Mom and at least 2 children or Dad or Mom and at least 3 children.
Senior Rate: Age 60+
Green Canyon also offers swimming lessons during the summer months. There are 10 lessons for the 2016 season and for more information on swimming lessons it would be best to call them to know when those lessons begin.
Swimming Lessons 2016: $62 for 10 lessons.
Directions:
2432 Canyon Creek Road
P.O. Box 206
Newdale, ID 83436
-Destination will be on the left
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