New Year’s Eve, 2017 at The Idaho Potato Drop event. A lot of the snow had melted by the 31st, and the sun was shining into a beautiful blue Boise sky. The Idaho Potato Drop Festival is an end-of-the-year family friendly event that rings in the new year with a day of live music, inner-tube rides down ice ramps, wrestling matches, local food and drinks, a huge family tent warmed up with entertainment for the kids, and for the grand-finale, a potato the size of a bus is lowered by crane into the cheers of the crowd, and into our hopes and prayers for the new year.
The Boise Beat wishes everyone a happy, healthy and fun 2018!
Photo Gallery follows, all photos by Terrance Welch.
Family fun with the Potato
Fireworks for 2018
I can fly!
A good message for 2018
Band playing at the Idaho Potato Drop Festival
A Potato skateboard
Boise, the Fries Capital
Fireworks for NYE at Capitol
Fun with tubing at the Idaho Potato Drop Festival
Getting food from Mary Jane’s Grill at the Potato Drop Festival
Freestyle skiing at the Idaho Potato Drop Festival
Having fun in the CupBop Truck
Getting ready for a tubing ride
I’m having tubing fun!
Miss Idaho at the Idaho Potato Drop Festival
Is this really fun mom?
Miss Idaho holding the Potato
More Extreme skiing at the Potto Drop Festival
Playing at the Idaho Potato Drop Festival
Reading to the crowd at the Idaho Potato Drop Festival
Ready for her New Year
A winner at the Idaho Potato Drop Festival
Fireworks for 2018
Am I at the bottom yet?
Camels and Potatoes, a winning combination
CupBop Truck with Korean Food in a bowl at the Potato Drop Festival
Camels at the Statehouse?
Off Center Dance Project Dancers at the Idaho Potato Drop Festival
Drumming is so relaxing…….
Doing the Potato Dance
A nice buffet at the Idaho Potato Drop Festival
Extreme Skiing at the Potato Drop Festival
Family fun with the Potato
Well one of us is enjoying the tubing!
Volunteers at the Idaho Potato Drop Festival
Singing and Playing at the Idaho Potato Drop Festival
Tubing is a blast!
The Potato is coming!
Ready for the tubing ride of his life
Wrestling at the Potato Drop Festival
The Idaho Potato and a young friend
Rocking out at the Idaho Potato Drop Festival
Rockin’ her bass at the Idaho Potato Drop Festival
tubing in the snow
Red Light Challenge on stage at the Potato Drop Festival
