State Capital

While we were in Boise for the state tournament, Jim insisted that we take the kids to the state capital.  It was a pretty interesting morning.  I have never been to Idaho's capital and it was a beautiful building - they just finished up a major remodeling job.  We had fun taking pictures and then went to watch a few meetings, nothing too exciting, but worth it to see how the process works.  We went to a committee meeting that Senator Geddes was involved in, and then he took us up to preferred seating to watch the senate session.  It was cool - we were in the VIP balcony and had a great view of everything.  While we were watching a big group of kids started making their way into the public seating section.  Sure enough it was the Madison pep band and the kids spotted Colton (my nephew) right away.  We watched him looking around for a while and the look on his face when he saw us was comical.  He gave us a little wave and then we found him later in the rotunda.  He's not a big picture kind of guy, but was a good sport to have a pix with the girls.  Senator Geddes took over the meeting (see the middle picture) - he introduced us as friends from Wayan and told the other senators to look it up on a map.  He is the Senate president - weird, right, that we know powerful people?

We went and watched the house proceedings for a little while - they didn't joke around as much as the senate!  We took more pictures and just looked around the building.  Then it was time to hurry and head to another game.  It was a neat morning and I'm not sure about the kids, but government made a little more sense after watching for a bit.  Overall we had a great time - except I think Megan is still upset that we spent 3 days in Boise and didn't make it to the mall!