Every weekend during the summer in Boise there is a farmers market downtown. There is a ton of vendors selling photos, jewelry, bags, pottery, plants and food. The whole downtown is bumping...literly...you can not take 3 steps with out bumping into other people. This morning I met Rosy and Collette for some girl time and sushi.
We had such a fun weekend! On Friday we saw Batman: The Dark Knight--phenomenal! On Saturday we hooked up with some friends who took us rafting on the lower Payette River. We launched at the point where the n. fork meets the s. fork. Josh and a buddy jumped into the river from a bridge that was about 20 feet above the water...the drop wasn't bad...the freezing water from the s. fork was! We rafted down approximately 10 miles and navigated our way through 8 class 2 & 3 rapids (class 6 is the biggest degree). We rode "the bull" and through some of the rapids the passengers of all the rafts would jump in and "swim" the rapids leaving their boats un-manned. It was absolutely amazing scenery and such a blast!
When we reached our take out point, we weren't quite finished with the water. There was a bend by us and the water picked up speed, rushed by about 30 feet and then got washed back up stream creating a small race track for "swimmers." We strapped on our life jackets and swam into the current. There were many whirlpools that would suck us under for a second the pop us back up before the upstream current would take us back upstream to do it all over again (are 
you picturing this yet?) The purpose of this was to get sucked under the deepest and to spin the fastest in the whirlpool... as my mom faints on her study floor reading this! The fun lasted almost an hour and if your thinking that we are a bunch of irresponsible children...our 50+ year old guides (parents of our friends) Vance and Elizabeth have been doing this for the last 10 years. It was a great time and it is so fun to enjoy the eastern side of this beautiful state.
Our July 4th weekend was very "Purcell Family" traditional. We had the WHOLE clan there which was so much fun. We had a BBQ, volley ball tournament, we ate at the Iona Lions Club breakfast, played tennis, rode the train, floated down Big Springs, went shooting and, of course, had an amazing firework show. It was so much fun to spend time with family!
