Better late than never.

From Trip to Boise 2008 - Lucky Peak

Thanks to Jeff for reminding me that I have yet to post all the pics from the Idaho trip. Those of you in LA will already have been forced to sit through one or two slide shows on the subject, but in these complicated, often troubling times there are some family members who may not yet have been subjected to all of the these pictures, so these posts will be for you.

Starting off in Chronological order, we have the pics we took up at Lucky Peak. Unfortunately, the boat did not survive the trip and we ended up ruining the party time of a group of Boise State co-eds who's dock we took over with our inflatable tow toys and squirt guns. Now these docks are public mind, but some Idaho douche slides his massive speed boat up to the dock that we were all hanging out on and says "what's going on here?" Not "How's it Going" or "Hey our stuff is on the shore, we're going to eat lunch, but we'll try to share this public resource..." nope, just 'what's going on here" (subtext...I got all these chicks in Bikini's so whats with you sqaures and your kids and your big fat guts ruining our times?) Anywho the old man handled it by speaking Idaho to the dood and they begrudgingly went about their business.

I didn't get any feed back about how you liked the last slide show...so I'm going to assume that you LOVED it and give you another one. If anyone wants to download these pics they are available on my public Picasa album:

Trip to Boise 2008 - Lucky Peak

Otherwise enjoy the slideshow:

First (Long overdue?) Post about the trip to Boise.

Well, I've been back at work for a few days now, but I've been too busy recooperating to throw up a blog full o' pictures.

Becca and I just finished our summer time trip to the old man's place in Idaho. This trip was totally great. We had a big list of thing we wanted to do and we pretty much did them all. We:

-Saved money by having a bunch of delicious BBQs at Dad and Raleigh's place
-Floated down the Boise River
-Went out on the Boat
-Saw the Wilco concert with my 2nd Cousin Scott and his Wife.
-Went to the Idaho State Fair (twice)
-Went to (one of) Emma's family's (pretty posh) cabins.
-burned marshmellows and just ate the graham crackers
-Hit the Pawn shops (Boise has the most amazing pawn shops...must be all the meth heads and Mormons)
-Rode the Zipper
-Ate at Chappala's
-Had a few "Epic Bike Rides" with Dad on the Green Belt
-Watched Battle of the Planets with Calvin and Henry.
-Hit the little boutiques in Eagle (Rembrants coffee shop in Eagle, Idaho is a MUST VISIT if you ever find yourself in Boise)
- Went to the Tour de Fat
-Went to a rustic little Hot Springs
-Had corned beef hash at the Capri
-Hit the Farmers market
-Went to a crazy Idaho Goth Club
-Checked out an Art Walk
-Had some tasty pizza
- Took a chance on Kismet Vodka, the only Vodka you can buy outside of a bar in Idaho after 7PM. There is a reason you can't google it. It sucks.
-Played a game of Asteroids Deluxe with my nephew Calvin on a mint condion original arcade cabinet at a 50s resturant with hot chicks on roller skates.
-Had eggs benny at Goldy's Breakfast Bistro
-Had a Bowling tournament, where Dad and his Girlfriend Kicked our asses.

So as you can see it was a busy trip, and I have some great pics that I'll be posting over the next few days. To start it off, I'm going to post up all the "Random Snapshots". Just pics that I took randomly, that don't fit into a category like "at the cabin" or "on Lucky Peak". I'm going to experiment with Picasa's gallery feature to post these. Let me know if you like it or not. If you don't I'm just going to go back to my usual photobucket "big ol mess o' pictures" that take forever to load method.

Enjoy:



As an interesting side note, I kept coming accross this blog that Greg wrote about Boise, I was reading it going, man I wonder if this guy knows Raleigh and Greg cause he sounds like he hits all the spots...and then at the bottom of the window is a picture of Calvin and Henry...so turns out he knows Greg because he IS greg.