Baker City, Oregon

Before I start our update let me wish Kelli and Rob a belated Happy 7th Anniversary. So sorry I forgot to mention it on my blog from the 22nd.

OK, now we are at Oregon Trails West RV Park in Baker City Oregon, we left the Rally 1 day early because we need to be in Provo Utah on Saturday to meet up with some friends that are going to the Balloon Festival with us. (We didn’t want to kill ourselves driving)

We had a lot of fun at the rally, hard not to, when they feed you with appetizers, ice cream, wine, beer, hard stuff, breakfast and dinner every night. They had tons of RV’s to walk thru, and boy they sure were hoping you were buying. There were only about 50, if that, vendors to sell you things. It was just enough because Dave and I donated on stuff I’m sure we could have done without. Really thank goodness there weren’t more vendors because the way the market is going we sure didn’t need to spend more money. Dogs everywhere so Valley made lots of friends never saw one mean dog except those little yapper ones. The very 1st day the vendors opened up we kind of strolled thru and just so happen to by past one of the vendors. As we were leaving, the guy runs after us as we are going out the door and ask if we were too good for him for not stopping at his booth. Ends up being a couple we played Pickle Ball with in Soledad Canyon Thousand Trails, too funny, Larry and Dottie. I had mentioned before that I saw a coach that we had met the people in Florida, anyway, we walked up to their coach and introduced ourselves again, John and Barb, who are fulltime too. At our table for dinner it ended up being Dave, Jeri, Stan, Ginger, Joe, Lynda, John, Barb, then this weird couple joined us, Clark and Mary Ann were suppose to join us but I never saw them again after the 1st day. (so maybe they really weren’t friends from Camp Monaco L) Stan and Ginger had to leave Wednesday morning so Larry and Dottie joined us for dinner on Wednesday night, plus, that weird couple again.
Tuesday night after dinner as we all sat there talking, the singer they had hired to entertain us started singing. He wasn’t very good, so Ginger and I were in deep conversation as were John and Dave. Next thing I know a man from the other table leans over and was saying something to John and Dave, and I had a feeling it wasn’t good. Next thing John is asking this guy to step outside and they will settle it. It ended up this man was telling Dave and John to hold it down and tempers were flying, we then decided the singer was no good so we all left, except the weird couple, and went back to Ginger and Lynda’s rigs sat outside and talked until late. We did that about every night and sure did have a lot of fun; it was a great group to be with. Last night they had a comedian, singer, songwriter and he was good, at the beginning, after awhile he was telling longer stories and I was getting bored, plus, since Dave and I had to leave early we decided to turn in early, no late night get together for us.

We should be at my niece’s house, Marisa, on Monday and will be staying 2 nights, I believe, before heading to New Mexico.

One last thing, on our drive here, again in Oregon, a rock was thrown at us by a big rig and we have another chip in our windshield. We have 3 chips and all have come from Oregon, we might just have to write this state off for visiting.