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Photos from our trip down to Boise

We're in Boise now, on my laptop it says its 68 back home, here it's around 80. Boise has everything California does except smog! Lots of construction, malls, traffic, and seems like this week hot weather too!
But on our down here Thursday and Friday, and on our way back towards home next Friday, we got to see much of why we really like living in Idaho now.
The top two photos were taken Thursday, the bottom two Friday.


Top photo is from the Lewiston Grade overlook and shows the city of Lewiston, Idaho as well as the river and the valley around it.
We'd stayed at the Clearwater Hotel and Indian Casino a little east of Lewiston on the Nez Perce reservation.
The second photo is right at sunset and was the hilltop just across from the Clearwater and only gold with the sunset for a few minutes. Looked really nice though.


A stop on Highway 95 North of Whitebird, Idaho, shows a steep valley and talks of the short war in the 1870's with the Nez Perce tribe in the area. Stacy is waving after I got some photos of the valley.





Bottom photo is of a white water area of the Snake River as we stopped to take some photos.
Just about all the drive down we were listening to a very long unabridged audio book about the life of Howard Hughes. We'd watched the movie "The Aviator" a couple of weeks ago so that got me digitizing the cassettes to audio files for my iPod Touch. It is a very good book and I'm glad we had it to hear again. But I'd loaded my iPod with several books so we're covered no matter what. Even with XM satellite radio we like good books too!

Today Stacy has been busy most of the day with the rest of the committee she belongs to getting everything set up for the conference. Registration opened a little over an hour ago and everything starts at 8 in the morning. So the next few days will be busy for both of us!
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