Showing posts with label Washington. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Vacation 2012 - Day 6, June 27


Day 6

     Well woke up to the sun in my eyes and some family members talking. We had a few things planned before we even left the RV, and from the sounds of it I was going to be bored almost the whole time
     We left the RV somewhere around nine. We had to drive to the convention center so that we could set up a few things, as well as figure the place out. Once there we first had to go to registration so that we were all set, before we left the area though we talked to several different people that we knew.
     Once done talking we went searching for a certain place in the center, we eventually got lost but quickly figured out where we were going. Once we found the location we needed mom, dad, nana, and sister started to set up a rather large item. I however sat near a window and spent the time ether looking out said window or checking a few things out on the Internet with my phone. We spent anywhere from an hour to a bit over two hours at that place, and I was bored the whole time.
     Once done with that we went looking for another room, a room I will most likely be spending a lot of time in. We found it with little trouble. The family, minus me, was happy with the room and the room that it had, me on the other had did not like it. I saw the room as place that did not have enough room for a kid to be a kid. Well we will see who is right.
     After checking out that hall we went back to the van and went for a drive up a highway by the name of 395. Dad wanted to say he drove the whole thing, and as we had nothing else to do we let him do it. I was able to last for around thirty minutes before I fell asleep for most of the way.
     When I woke up we were in a forest area getting close to the US-Canadian border. Next to us was a river that was in major overflow, sadly that was nothing more than cool to see. Once we reached the border we turned right around and went back the way we came.
     On the way back we made few detours. One a quick drive around an area that let us few the over flowed river a bit more. Another was to a museum that was about the place. I was not happy when we stopped; I really wanted to get back to the RV, more on that later.
     When we were done with the museum we went a bit further down the road it was on and got out of the van again. Well correction, dad, sister, and nana got out and explored the place even walking down a trail while mom and I stayed back at the van and relaxed a bit.
     It took them a LONG time to get back, but once they did we were off again.  The next time we stopped was at Michaels for some craft items for sister and mom. But once done there we went across the parking lot to a place called The Onion.
     The Onion is what one could consider a gourmet hamburger place. The service we got was outstanding and the server was the friendly as can be. Mom ordered a gluten free burger and some gluten free fries as well. For the first time in a while we had no problems with getting the gluten free food, the rest of the family also got their food with no event.
     The burger I got was good, but I wished I had gotten a bigger one. The fries were also good.
     By the time we left the time was coming around 8:30. We had originally planned to go back to the RV, change then go to the convention center again. But as it was getting late we scrapped that plan and decided to just stay at the RV.
     So we paid for our meal and headed back to the RV where all did our different things.

Day six typed June 27, 2012.

By the way If you are looking for a quicker summary of the days events as well as a slightly different perspective You can try my dad's blog: j-e-may.blogspot.com

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Vacation 2012 - Day 5, June 26


Day 5

     Woke up to the falling of water from the tree above us, the time being closer to eight than anything. The plan is to make it to Spokane today, that shouldn’t be a problem.
     Before we left we had to do a couple of items. We had to feed the cats, we’ve decided to switch up what they eat from just dry food to a mixture of dry and canned with the hopes that it will help with one of our cat’s digestive problems.
     We also had to put some flea killing stuff on all of our pets. They’ve had them since we left the house and we’ve been forgetting to give them the stuff. With luck the medication should stop our dogs from biting and scratching themselves so much.
     We set off at nine, again.
     We stopped around 10:30 for a bit of shopping. We got some more pet stuff, plus a bit more human food. We also got some clothes, which included swimming trunks for me and dad as we had forgotten ours at home.
     After shopping we went a little ways and stopped at a Subway for lunch. We were hoping since we were in Oregon that they would have gluten free bread, like they said all Subways in Oregon did. But just our luck, they did not. So mom was unable to get anything from Subway, but the rest of the family got something for lunch.
     We got back into the RV around 11:30, and started to eat our Lunch. We set off around ten minutes later.
     We stopped for a bathroom break a while later, but were soon on the road again.
     We pulled into Idaho, the state we are staying in.
     At around four we stopped to fill up, had a little confrontation with another driver when we had problems getting out. But that was quick and only verbal.
     We pulled right across the street to our stop. The place we will be spending the next several days at. It is in a town called Post Falls, it is near the border of Idaho and Washington. Before we could plug in we had to quickly take the van off the trailer and then we had to back into the spot we had been assigned.
     We had several problems hooking up. For one, our power cable was too short, and even with our extension it was still too short, but not by much. It was just short enough for one of the adapters we had, so we hooked into a plug in that was meant for a bit higher amperage.
     The second problem, and the main one, was our sewer hose. Even with all three of our hoses we still had a bit over twenty feet to go. Dad had to go up to the front and buy another long hose. And once he got the hose he had to fight to get some connectors onto it, but then broke the connector.
     So dad had to go back up to the front and buy a different form of a connector. This one basically connected the two hoses without any practical way to unhook them again. It took a little bit but eventually dad was able to get the piece in and then finish hooking up the sewer. And with that we became fully hooked up.
     We had a few other things to move about but the rest of the set up was uneventful.
     About two hours after we pulled in, we all jumped into the van and went off for a drive. First scouted a couple of places, finding a waterfall like area, spent a few minutes checking it out. Once done with that we went looking for food, sadly we failed. We could not find any local food place open at the time, which was nearing nine.
     We had to drive for a while before we finally decided to just go to a Denny’s, and had a good dinner there.
     After that we went straight back to the RV and went about our different business.

Day five typed up June 26, 2012, all past vacation entries this year edited same day.