Our next two summer trips were Basque festival trips. First we went to Elko for the fourth of July thing and then to Boise for Jaialdi a few weeks later.

Elko is so fun because we get to eat at the Star, and we LOVE their food. It is always worth the wait! Their fireworks are amazing and Diane always gets us an amazing table for the night of the fireworks. Joey participated in their first ever "Run with the sheep", which was a riot. Tom of course was amazing and blew everyone out of the water with his feats of strength.

Jaialdi is only held every five years in Boise and we were really looking forward to our second trip there. We got a really nice room which was close to the fairgrounds and really close to the Greenbelt. They have this amazing trail system in Boise...I think it was something like seventeen miles of trail that ran along the river and we had a lovely walk every morning. It was also close to Joe's Crab Shack. Joey and Elijah fell in love with the Crab Shack and would have eaten every meal there if they could. As it was, we ate there two nights and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

The second morning when we went on our walk we got a little adventurous and got ourselves lost. It was really funny. We eventually realized that we had somehow crossed to the other side of the river and had way over-shot the hotel. We were gone much longer than planned but the boys didn't notice. If you are going to get lost it was a really cool and beautiful place to wander aimlessly.

Lots of dancing and games...good food and Paella! We had a really fun trip. We were sad that Diane and Tom couldn't come, but Joey loves it when Elijah gets to come!