Boise, Breaking Bad, and Bookstores

A really enjoyable Hyatt Place breakfast was the best way to start our day before exploring Boise. Our first stop was the Record Exchange because my sister and I spotted it the previous night. It was pretty cool because it had a soda fountain so after flipping through their record collection and then choosing not to purchase anything, I bought a peach Italian soda. I also bought a bunch of stickers and pins from Breaking Bad and Adventure Time.

After getting in the car to go deeper in to downtown, my mom quickly noticed that the power boxes were painted elaborately for public enjoyment. It was really interesting to see because we lack that in New York. We found really good parking on a main street in Boise right next to a local bookstore. My brother bought a Big Nate book and read a good portion of it before even leaving the store. We also decided to start the Where's Waldo search that went through many of the local stores. The closest one after the bookstore was in Jamba Juice, I also needed to use the bathroom so that was perfect. It took me a while to find the Waldo even though it was right there on the menu. After I got a smoothie and rendevoused with the rest of my family outside I spotted something quite odd. A guy that didn't have a shirt on ordered a smoothie. Now that I think about it, there was also a guy in the bookstore with no shirt. If you did that in New York or Boston or San Francisco people would not even have to service you in the store. I guess it is just apart of their culture there. The kids that seemed a little younger than me were also just biking around. I like towns/cities where you can walk around and go into various local stores. Small businesses are my favorite. We realized we were approaching lunch time so we decided to go to Goldy's Breakfast Bistro. The food was amazing except the restaurant was decorated like a poopy diner. I know that is very immature to say, except it was. We returned to the hotel where I got a Jones cream soda. It was really good and kind of tasted like cotton candy. We were going to eat at Fork, except we were all really tired and decided to just get soups and salads from the Gallery downstairs at our hotel. It was really satisfying. We went back upstairs to watch Portlandia which may be my new favorite show. I fell asleep soon after while playing Pocket Trains on the iPad.