Cheryl read thru the blog this morning and mentioned that I had never posted the last entry.  Oops.  I blame blood pressure – as in I needed to get mine under control before posting this.

The day started at 5:45 (4 hours and 15 minutes after arriving at our hotel room in Vancouver).  We were on the 6:20 shuttle and at the airport in good time.  We cleared security and customs (again) and made our way to our gate in time to have a little breakfast.  Then we waited.

Boarding wasn’t bad – they were only about 1/2 hour late.  But once we were boarded and the door was closed the pilot announced that we were on a “gate hold” for about an hour – SeaTac couldn’t handle all the traffic.  Probably a weather thing.  Anyway after about 90 minutes we were on our way for the 1/2 hour hop.

Fortunately our departure gate in Seattle was only 4 down from our arrival gate.  And, of course, our plane to Boise was delayed. So we made that connection with little difficulty (and time to shop for lunch before boarding).

From that point it was smooth sailing – BOI, Cab ride home, be greeted by Lindy, try to stay awake till normal bedtime.

So that’s the trip.  Would we do it again?  In a heart-beat!  Except that we’ve already done it.  We did pick up on some individual events that would merit a return trip. The annual Celtic Colours Festival on Cape Bretton Island runs the first 2 weeks of October each year.

http://celtic-colours.com

I could definitely see a trek to the island for a few concerts and other events.

On the other hand we got some ideas from others in the group.  The Road Scholar trip to New Orleans got very high marks.  We also learned about Overseas Adventure Travel.  Those who have done both Road Scholar and OAT trips to Europe suggested that OAT would be the better while we are still spry enough to handle some adventure.  So we’ll see where we go from here.

One final note.  In the last posting I mentioned the Robertsons (Scott and Diane) from Meridian.  Also, in the “it’s a small world” category, we discovered that Diane is from Malad (the small – pop. 1,800  – town in southeast Idaho where Cheryl grew up). Small world indeed.

That’s about it.  Hope you enjoyed the trip reports.  Let me know what you liked and what could be improved.

TTFN,

R