Thursday, August 4, 2011

lazy daze

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We had a really great day for our first day of the roadtrip. I seriously did not look at my watch all day. I read Harry Potter to the girls when I wasn't at the wheel and before you knew it we were in Osoyoos. We stopped there and parked on the jetty at Haynes Point and had a refreshing swim. We then crossed the border at Oroville where the camper search was a small inconvenience given the fact that had we crossed in Blaine we would have endured at least an hour wait before submitting to same.
After a fun shop in Oroville: red
vines and giant
jawbreakers
for the ladies, chocolate for mom and cheap beer for Dad we drove on. We stopped at Grand Coolee Dam and I made a nice pasta salad and we barbecued steaks at the picnic table with the roar of the dam filling the air. Truly amazing to see and to have as
your backdrop while dining. A marmot came to say hello while we were eating, startling us as he came up from the bank of the dam
under the chain link fence. What's for dinner? he seemed to say. It was cute and the girls were quite excited at their first spotting of the little varmint.
After dinner we pushed off in search of a campsite as this was an unhooked night of our journey. Dad went to pull into the kings cross rv park but I forced us on and wouldn't u know it but a state park just ahead in spring canyon awaited us around the bend. At the top of the canyon over looking beautiful Lake Roosevelt, $10 got us a spot for the night.

3 comments:

  1. Great picture of the ladies. I remember camping at Grand Coulee dam with Mom and Dad one year - can't remember how old you were then - first time I ever saw a rattle snake up close - very cool so I can imagine what the marmot spotting felt like.

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  2. remember spotting the gophers for the first time on our cross canada trip? Didn't you have the urge to just pull off to the side of the road for the night and camp dad still off the highway ha! Sounds like you're having fun. keep on posting and get a good run in

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  3. Wonderful photo. What a great adventure you guys will all remember for a long time -- just like your sisters' comments above.

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