Viva Jaialdi!!! Ongi etorri. We traveled up to Boise and met with a lot of Dave's family to go to the Jaialdi Basque festival. The festival occurs every 5 years and is the largest Basque festival outside of Spain. It was a lot bigger than we thought. It seemed like half of the people from our hotel were from Spain. The Basque people live in Northern Spain and Southern France in the Pyrenees mountains. We were there from Thursday through Sunday.
There were many Basque sport competitions. Denton is trying to lift a 450 lb cart and see how far he can walk with it.
The girls (and Gavin) enjoyed seeing the Basque sheep herder wagons.
Basque sheep herder wagon.
At the Basque Square in downtown Boise, the kids watched some cooks make a giant dish of Basque paella.
The girls visiting the Basque whaling museum. I didn't know that the Basque were walers. Maybe that's why I'm always hoping the Japanese sink the ships the Bob Barker and the Steve Irwin on Whale Wars.
We also visited the Boise Zoo.
On the way home we stopped in Northern Utah at the ATK missle display. ATK makes the shuttle boosters and various other rockets and missles.
Tara wasn't excited about the stop or extending the ride home, but we stopped in Golden Spike to see the historic spot where the transcontinental railway was connected.
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It was a fun weekend. The girls were so cute with all the cousins. Thanks for coming.
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