June 14th to 18th - WA

June 14-18^th – WA

Tues- We had an uneventful morning and early afternoon – probably some shopping involved!! We went for dinner at Bill & Georgia's and then played Sequence to a tie.

Wed- We are going to St. John's on Thursday to watch sprint boat racing so we did some planning & a bit more grocery shopping. Julie & Natalie came to visit with us in the afternoon. Julie is doing very well (thanks a lot to Natalie) but we shared a few tears as we talked. Shortly after they left, it was time go to Bill & Georgia's and then to Texas Roadhouse to join their friends (Wally(1) & Linda and Wally(2) & Jan) for dinner to celebrate Wally(2)'s birthday.

Thurs- We packed up, dumped the tanks and drove to Bill & Georgia's shortly before noon for the trip to St John's which was a lovely drive through wheat fields once we left I90. We are going to watch sprint boat races here on Saturday.

We set up on the lawn at the fairgrounds which is just a short ways from the sprint boat track. We have 110 power and a water faucet if we need to fill the tank – for $5 a day. We walked into town to buy early passes and to check things out. Bill & Linda Schoeplin are going to join us so we looked for a balloon to tie to our sun shelter so they could find us. Unfortunately the only store with balloons was closed today. We had a lovely dinner on the BBQ.

Fri- We played 9 holes of golf this morning. Terry still had a sore back but figured swinging a club might help so he played too. The weather was great – think we all dressed too warm as we were shedding jackets early. None of us set any course records but we all had fun! We walked to town for a free lunch at the hardware store – hot dogs, homemade potato salad, chips, drink & brownies. The pharmacy was open so we got a helium balloon for tomorrow. This was also the “show & shine” for the owners to show off their boats so we wandered up & down the main street and then headed home.

We could have played golf all day for the same rate but we were all lazy so Terry & Bill returned the rented pull cart & we relaxed. After dinner we went to the sprint boat race venue and put up frames for “easy up” sun/rain shelters to reserve our sites. We got a couple of passes to allow us to do it today rather than trying to get a good location tomorrow morning.

Sat- Of course today dawned cool & cloudy since the sprint boat races are today. We shared a muffin, packed a lunch and left with Bill & Georgia just before 9 which was when the gates opened. We had quite a walk to our “reserved” site and we added the covers and got settled well before the first race. Bill & Linda found us thanks to the balloon. Wally & Linda came a bit later and were also guided by the smiley face balloon.

The races were great but unfortunately the weather was not. It did rain but at least we had “tents” unlike a lot of people. Bill & Georgia's son Dennis has a sprint boat and won his division today – as he has done several times before. Knowing someone personally in the race makes it a lot more fun. We had a super viewing location even though it meant walking up quite a hill. After the races we took ourselves & our gear to Dennis' trailer where we stayed out of the rain while Bill went to get the truck from the huge parking area – what a guy!! I made dinner for all of us and we watched TV until Bill went back to their rig, plugged in a heater & electric mattress pad and blew the breaker! No biggy – we were all ready to call it a day and Terry just fired up our generator for a while.