Day 29 (Thursday 7/19/12)- Boise, ID

I must have been tired because when I finally woke up Isaiah asked me to guess what time it was. I could have slept in even longer because though we had some fun last night, today was mostly a bust. We stopped at the library and enjoyed air conditioned blogging/researching but then tried to venture out and ran into trouble. The first issue was trying to tour the Old State Penitentiary "Old Pen" and finding out that the last guided tour had already ended because they rely on volunteer guides. You can do a self guided tour but we have found that if you can do a guided tour you definitely should.

We then tried to visit the Basque Museum and found it was closing. Boise has a history of being home to a large amount of Basque people (from an area that reaches from northeastern Spain to southwestern France- take that with a grain though because I got it from Wikipedia and not the museum). The Basque market across the street however was very welcoming and we generously accepted their offer of free wine samples. Very good wine but at $8 a glass it was too expensive to give as a gift, sorry. (It might not have made it to the mailbox anyway.)

After that we walked around for a bit, but the heat was severe and we had already walked much of Boise the night before. Uncle Rich was right about not liking Boise. It does have cheap drinks and a couple things to see but overall it's disappointing. Finally, a restful night at the Walmart.   -A

(Random pic showing the death of interesting sights in Boise. Props to Ol' Dirty Bastard, aka Dirt McGirt, aka Osirus, aka Dirt Dog, aka Big Baby Jesus)