Thursday, August 17th 2006, another week another blog. Isn't it just amazing how every morning you get up there is another NEW news story. Mel Gibson, the London scare, and now Jonbenet Ramsey, sure took the news off of Mel Gibson didn't it. (Wag the Dog)
Everything here is going well, went to Bellingham and found the Costco and Walmart last Wednesday, Thursday Dave and I had pedicures and I had my nails done. Friday we decided to drive into Canada, not the smartest thing to do right after the thing in London happened. The line was quite long to get thru the border but we made it thru. We drove into Vancouver, parked and walked around. Very Asian there, everywhere you looked there were Sushi Bars but we kept on walking and ended up at the Top of Vancouver Revolving Restaurant for lunch. What a view we had for lunch it took an hour to circle around and that's just how long lunch took, boy do they have that planned right. We decided not to stick around too long because the border crossing that we had seen going in was even longer going out. We got to the border and there was hardly anyone there, must have been good timing on our part.
Saturday we drove to Camping World in Mt. Vernon, the weather was nice and clear and what a view you could see of Mt. Baker. We then drove back and Bellington was having their 14th annual Chark Fest and 1st Artist Fair. The chark fest was pretty neat, chark artist of all ages could enter, as you can see from Dave's last blog he did post 1 chark drawing that we saw. The drawings were all over the sidewalks, for blocks, everyone was sure not to walk on any of them too. I had heard on the radio that they had over 2,000 drawings to judge, never did hear who won though. Saturday night we had a surprise visit from Robert, Kelly and Rosie I was pretty amazed that they found us in the dark, the park was really full.
Sunday we laid around and enjoyed the sunshine reading, playing on the computers and walking Valley around. Sunday night we went to Robert and Kelly's house for dinner, what a view they have of Mt. Baker, Ferndale and Bellingham. To have a view of something like that is unbelievable, I don't blame Kelly for not putting curtains up to cover the windows, I sure as hell wouldn't. The house is hugh and when they get all the remodeling done it is going to be beautiful, the house will be just as great as the view they have. The best thing about the view they have is that no one can block their view, houses can go below and around them just not in front of them.
Monday, laundry day, had no choice ran out of underwear, oh well, I have to get used to doing laundry in these parks or laundry mats anyway. Around noon Kelly, Rosie and Alex came over and we all went to the Northwest Washington Fair together. Boy, you wouldn't believe the line to get in the place, the fair is in Lynden and I swear no one works around here, you would think "it's a Monday" no one will be there, wrong. Anyway, the weather was great, and they had a free demolition derby going on which was a lot of fun to watch. After the show we walked around and saw the normal fair stuff.
Tuesday, Dave was working, Valley and I went driving around town checking things out, then stopped at two different parks to walk around. The 1st one was Pioneer Park, which gives tours but we were too early. They have a bunch of wood cabins there which date back to the 1800's, churches, barns, jails and homes. We walked around the whole thing then drove to Hovander Homestead Park. This park was really big, picnic tables, BBQ's they had a few different group parties going on, great place for a family/friends get together. They also had fenced in horses, cows, pigs, geese, chickens, roosters, peacocks, rabbits, goats and I think that was about it. Valley sure liked going up to all those animals, she rubbed noses with the goats, the geese hissed at her and one of the chickens peeked at her nose, not sure if it got her but boy did she jumped a mile. The rabbit cages I couldn't get her away from, she would have stayed there all day. We walked around on a couple of the trails, but didn't take them to the end, decided it was getting a little late so we would come back tomorrow, earlier, and walk all the trails. When we got back, Dave was still working so I just got my book and laid out in the sun. When Dave was done with work we drove into Bellingham to the Costco to get gas and of course go to Home
Depot, Dave hadn't been for about a week and was having with drawals. After that we drove to the Indian Casino here, where Rosie always goes. It was pretty small inside looks a lot bigger from the outside. We found some video poker slots and sat down with 20 bucks each. When we left about 45 min. later I still had my 20 but Dave was down to 5.
Yesterday, Wednesday, Valley and I went back to Hovander Homestead Park to do our hiking around. We walked for 2 hours straight walking around about 4 different trails. When Valley starts laying down for a rest, and I know it wasn't because of the heat, she was tired. Walking around Tuesday and Wednesday had worn her out, I have to remember she did turn 10 yrs old this month. When she got in the car she couldn't lay down quick enough, and then back at the motor home she jumped out of the car and laid on the mat, she didn't want to climb inside the trailer. I figure today I'll just take her for short walks around the park here and let her recoup. Tomorrow, Dave and I plan on driving to Mt. Baker or at least to the bottom of Mt. Baker, not going to the top it is covered with snow. Will get pictures and post on our website.
bye for now