Oh wait, that’s not a holiday.  But in Boise it is, sort-of.  During the 1840’s many Oregon Trail pioneers passed through this valley.  They wanted to get to the west coast and found the valley here to be a good place to stop along the way as it had lots of trees (shade) and water (the Boise River.)  In 1862 Gold Fever hit and the population boomed.  This caused the government to commission Fort Boise on July 6, 1863 and to plat the city on July 7.  So this year is Boise’s sesquicentennial (look it up.)

How do we know all of this?  It’s a pretty big deal around here.  There is even a sesquicentennial store near our place.  They were running walking tours of the original Boise plat all day.  The tour was fairly interesting, was only an hour and was a decent walk during the cooler part of the day.

We saw “The Heat” in the afternoon.  It’s hysterical.  If you don’t mind the f-word.  And a bunch of other words.

We hit a few favorite places here in town and started preparing for the drive tomorrow.  The weather is hot here (95 – 103), it will be nice to get to the cooler weather back home.