Boise Bound!

I love a trip! That's what started this whole blog in the first place. This trip to Boise, however, I'm taking alone. Curt is staying in Texas to prepare for a BIG trip he's taking later this summer.

So before I left Texas, we had to do a couple of things "one last time." One last delicious lunch at our favorite Rockport sushi restaurant, Sushi Luck:

Yummmmmmmmmmmmm!

And one last walk in the evening on the Rockport beach. Here's the sunset looking South:

And North:

And away from the bay to the West:

What fun to live in a place where we can walk along the sand and wade and splash through the water, enjoying the sunset!

It's a 3-hour drive to the San Antonio airport, so I was up and out EARLY Friday morning! I stowed my car at a nearby motel. I'll stay there on my return, which will be a flight that arrives very late at night. No way I can make the drive back to Rockport without a good nights sleep.

Had an uneventful couple of flights to Boise (the best kind!), and arrived early enough to have a quick visit with ALL four children and 12 grandchildren before heading off to unpack and fall in bed. We have some very generous friends, Barbara and Larry, who are kind enough to let me stay at a house they own in Boise. They live an hour away in Garden Valley, and really only use the Boise house 2 days a week, when they come to the city for their weekly errands and appointments. 

Boise sunsets are VERY different than the ones we see in Rockport:

Yesterday, Saturday, I had a fairly relaxing day. I slept in late and unpacked and settled in. Then while I waited for the boys, Rand and Hudson, to get off work (they both ended up having to work on Saturday this week), I headed over to The Twisted Ewe, the fiber/knitting shop that our daughter manages. She has a regular group of customers who stop in to knit throughout the day, and they stay for various lengths of time. I've been here enough now that I'm starting to get to know them, and we catch up on each other's news when I'm back in town.

There's a wonderful large round table in the center of the shop that invites knitters to sit and visit and knit. There are usually at least a dozen projects spread out around the table at any given time, and samples of completed projects are draped on the backs of chairs, so each seat is warmly decorated with handmade items.

Here's Jessica helping a customer find what she needs for her newest project:

Later in the afternoon I met our oldest daughter Kelly and our oldest granddaughter Heidi at Starbucks for a frappe into. Heidi is driving under supervision now so she was the chauffeur for the trip. 

Then I headed back downtown to the Whole Foods Store. What a great place! We don't have one of those in little Rockport, Texas. I met with Jessica, Hudson, Rand and Rand's girlfriend Brenna. We all picked out a bunch of delicious food to share and headed out of town to the nearest State Park, Lucky Peak Reservoir. There we feasted and visited in the shade, near the water. What a perfect place to have dinner together!

We were visited by some of the local wildlife. I've really missed seeing all the Canadian geese that we used to see in Idaho.

Rand never goes anywhere without his portable disc golf basket, so he and I tossed some practice discs at the basket. I impressed him (and surprised myself!) by sinking my first 4 shots in a row right in the basket. That'll probably never happen again!!!

Then, before heading back "home" for the night, I made a last minute decision to do my favorite late night Boise activity: spend a couple of hours at Barnes and Noble. That's one more luxury that we don't have in Rockport, so it's fun to go browse the bookshelves late at night (they stay open till 11 p.m., and I usually close them out!) This time I was looking for books on my new interest: Zentangle. And I wasn't disappointed. If you don't know about Zentangle, just Google it. There's lots about it on the Internet.

This morning I awoke to another favorite Boise sound...the rush of air into hot air balloons. The house where I'm staying is right near the fairgrounds, where almost every weekend hot air balloons are launched. Sometimes the sky is filled with colorful balloons, often floating directly overhead. Today there were only a couple, and the wind blew them off in a different direction, so my photo doesn't show the full glory and excitement they sometimes provide. But it's fun nevertheless!

Today I'm off to Caldwell, a nearby town, for church. Our youngest granddaughter, Chelsea, is being baptized this morning. So I'd better get moving! Check back later for more Boise news.