Hello friends and family. We're on our way south!! My last blog was dated Aug. 31 and here it is already Oct. 19th and we are sitting in the Coulee Playland Resort in Electric City, Washington. It was a beautiful day for a drive although we did have one big hiccup-we left all our money at home. We realized our error when we stopped at Costco in Kelowna and hubby asked me for the money. I thought he had the money. We went over the scenario of where the money might be and he finally realized that on Tuesday he had taken it from my purse and put it in the drawer because there was someone working on installing a window in our home and we were busy in the rig putting things away. Unbeknownst to me he thought I had put it back in my purse because he saw a lump of paper that resembled a bulging envelope with American, Mexican and Philippino bills inside my already bulging purse. Well, the chase was on. The race was to make it back to Enderby without hitting any red lights back through Kelowna, Winfield, Oyama, Vernon and Armstrong. Can you believe it? We did not hit a single red light all the way home. There it was, right where he put it. Now the race was on to get back to Kelowna by 12:00, renew our Costco membership, buy a big tub of popping corn, contact lens cleaner and two big bags of hubby's favourite treat that cannot be purchased in the US or Mexico. Only close personal friends and family will know what that is. I'll know you have been reading this blog when you comment on the what that favourite treat is. Anyway, we had the car hooked back on and out of the Costco parking lot by 12:18 pm. I'm still laughing.
We have a new passenger with us. His name is Hobo. He was a gift from our daughter this past summer. He's a little shy, so I took a picture of him while he had his back turned to me. He was asleep when I took the picture of the sign, otherwise he would have wanted to part of the picture.
We had planned to stay here two days but we decided to get away as fast as possible from the cooler weather so we up and left in the morning. Lots of fishers here with their boats and it is only four miles south of the Coulee Dam on Banks Lake. The drive south from here was very nice. Sun Lakes/Dry Falls State Park is on Hwy 17. The roads are newly paved all the way to Soap Lake. There are lots of camping and fishing spots to pull into and launch the boat. One distinguishing feature of this drive is Steamboat Rock.
