The drive to Boise was amazingly beautiful. A minor auto problem had us stop for diagnostics and we actually solved the problem after which we bought a new computer data reader. And when we arrived in Boise we checked in and quickly zipped off for dinner and the '60s musical at the Boise Little Theater, "She Loves You". Great performance!
You must get to see this theatre, it's beautiful! Watch some of the performance here!
Saturday morning we went to the Boise Zoo.
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... and Saturday night, the new Star wars movie at the Boise IMAX...
On Sunday we caught brunch at "Foodland Market (a Mediterranean market)" owned by a Turkish family and catering to a very Iraqi neighborhood. In the next block of this "Istanbul neighborhood of Boise", we saw a production of "Murder on the Orient Express" at the Stagecoach Theater.
One of our discoveries about Boise is that the Basque population do not hold sole claim to the city at all. In addition to South Asian people from Thailand etc., there is quite a large Eastern Mediterranean population from Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria area here, also. -and a huge collection of Italian restaurants from one of which we are going to have pizza tonight!And it's Red Bench Pizza!
Pizza so good we're coming back on "Lasagna Tuesday" night.
Well, Monday started and ended amazingly. Breakfast at Blue Bench Brunchette (we're not early risers after late nights.)
And, after short naps, we stopped for what ended up being the most expensive (especially since quitting booze decades ago), fruit/veg drinks at Boise Juice Company ringing in at $10 for each 10(?) oz. drink. The liquids were to bring with to the Westside Drive In where the food was okay and the music was yet another droning "oldies" collection which seems ubiquitous in Boise and I had hoped would go away after repeated playing in the '50s, the '60s, and the '70s, - over 50 years ago. Younger folks, some of whom must be brilliant musicians, have certainly been ignored by boomers.
Thankfully, we could not have been more enthralled, nicely welcomed, and thoroughly entertained than we were at the location of the beautiful Idaho Department of Parks & Recreation site of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival.
The evening's "Noche de Serenatas" included an opening special appearance of the Basque Choir, followed by the Boise Orchestra, flamenco dancers w/musicians, traditional Spanish folk dancers, and a magnificent 11 piece Boise Mariachi band!
Also, the special soloists were a woman and man operatic singers who returned again to sing Mexican folksong late into the night!
The Basque Choir performed lovely and unique folksongs that even most of them can't understand!
Flamenco singers and dancers performed.
The soloists first performed Spanish classical arias - and then Mexican songs!
The encores kept coming at the end. The last piece was "Amor eterno", Watch Rocío Dúrcal sing it here on YouTube:
That was a late night! After midnight by the time we went to bed!
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Tuesday morning & afternoon we rested in late so Mary could care for the asthma that has been holding her back for days. Tonight we've planned lasagna at the Red Bench Pizza and a movie at Rick's Flicks. We'll packed in tonight for two nights in Burns, so tomorrow we leave Boise🧳.
Friday after getting to Bend we had a wonderful dinner with Will, Mary's nephew, and his belle, "Sam". They treated us to an exciting and delicious Korean restaurant!
On Saturday, May 30, after visiting in Redmond with friends
Peggy Glass and her lovely grand-daughter, Dahlia, we arrived home safely. It was a lovely day for driving.
