Finally a nice day for a bike ride

Hey everyone,

Sorry it's been so long since our last post, but we've been pretty busy since we've come home. Finding work, hanging out with friends and family, it's been great. It's been pretty nice here since we've come back, but only on a couple days has it been truly nice for a good bike ride. Unfortunately, Don, no burger and beer this time, but it's coming soon. Our first bike ride was on Sunday and we just rode over to our friends house and helped them with some gardening for a bit. Today was truly beautiful though. We rode from our place through downtown to the greenbelt, which follows the Boise River through town and also out of town for a total of 27 miles. Only crazy people bike that far. There's 3 parks in a row along the river, Julia Davis, Ann Morrison, and Albertson's Park. Colleen and I got married in Albertson's park, so some of you have been there. Also on one side of the river is the BSU campus. We just rode around for a while then stopped and cooled off by the river for a few then rode home. Can't beat almost 75 degrees and a nice bike ride by a cool river. Here are some photos!


This is the US Bank Building, which is the talles building in Boise. I only show a picture of it to comepare with the next photo.

Behind the painted wall here is what's supposed to be the tallest building in Boise, but instead I think is the shortest. Behind the wall is a pit about 30 feet deep where they had started to lay the foundation for a building but then the guy who was funding it or something ran out of money. It's been there for a very long time. They finally covered it up with this fence a few years ago, and had a really nice mural painted on it that was done by the local high schools, but then I guess they changed it and now it's kind of lame. Not near as pretty to look at as it was before.
This is the Grove. It's really neat in the late spring and summer because in the middle of the "park", there's a really big fountain that's on all the time. This is part of 8th street, and this is where they have the market on Saturdays which I'm really excited to go to again. Plus there's a really good restaurant right there and it's nice to eat there in the summer and sit outside and watch people.
This is sort of a random picture I took while we were riding. Actually, most of these are. Anyways, this is about a block or a two up from the last photo, and I mainly took it trying to get the flag in. Boise's all about food. There may not be as much diversity as New York City, but it's pretty good for Idaho. Just downtown there are over 80 different places to eat, from the hot dog stand to fine dining. Sushi, steaks, pizza, Indian, plus plenty of bars in case you want a liquid meal.
This photo here is Julia Davis Park. If you closely in the back ground, the building you can see through the trees is the Boise Art Museum, which is sometimes really lame, but sometimes they have really cool stuff come through.

Here we are. BSU is in the back ground here.
I had originally stepped into a really shallow part of the river, and sai to Colleen, "It's not cold at all." So then I cam up with the grand idea to just walk on out, and while it's only a little bit above my ankles, it was super cold once I got out further, but still nice and refreshing.
Here's Colleen, she didn't want to go in the water because she didn't want o get her shoes wet. She's kind of a ninny.
Here she is doing a balancing act.
Here's me on my sweet bike on a bridge over the river. I took a picture of Colleen on her bike, but she didn't like the picture so she said I wasn't allowed to post it.

And that's that. Hope everyone in New York is doing great, we miss you all very much. And we're looking forward to seeing the rest of my family in May and then again in July hopefully!