The Thai Five Star Restaurant is supposed to be an institution in SLC. We didn’t really think the food was that good, but the decor was nice!
Clockwise from the right, we had mango salad, rice, panang curry, and pad Thai.
This is our only picture of downtown Salt Lake City scenery. To be fair, it seemed like a lot of the area we came to see, Temple Square, is under construction. Also, most of the buildings were pretty specific to LDS members, and only church members (according to the website) are allowed to go inside. So we saw what we could, which is pretty much limited to these cool arches!
Idaho is really quite gorgeous, especially during a rainstorm. We got to drive through part of a rainstorm on our way out of Boise, and really enjoyed it!
A Bardenay gin something or other! It was so good, but so strong I can’t exactly recall the name!
A mojito with Barsenay rum–a little sour, but definitely the best I have ever tasted!
TW had a Bardenay vodka martini–also delicious.
We stayed an extra day in Boise for a trip to Bardenay and the Old State Penitentiary. It’s so worth it! The Old Pen was a good tour–I forgot to write, since the pen closed down in 1973, many of the prisoners are living, and our tour guide even had an ex-inmate on a tour the other day!
Bardenay is a ton of fun! Walking up, we saw Henry Winkler, the actor best known as character Fonzie from Happy Days. I (Sprinkles) literally ran into him later (on accident, and he was sweet about it).
Besides the brush of the saw-you-so-many-times-it-feels-like-I-know-ya- type, the liquor was excellent.
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The cool thing about this block of cells is that the inmates had so much of a hand in building it. They even got to paint their cells the color of their individual choice. The diamond in back of the wall leads to a corridor between the two sides of the building. Guards would walk between two sides of the building during the night.
