OMG. What a great picture of Miss princess Bella who "rules" both me and Dan. hahahahaha. My youngest son Jason and his friend Teresa came to see us in the RV park. She took this wonderful picture of Bella.......We are less then 3 hours from Bremerton, so they took a short trip to see us. They could go the back roads to reach us. The little two lane roads that if we traveled them we'd sure hold up traffic! Anyway, they were here all afternoon. We took them to the Lucky Eagle Casino lunch buffet. Yummy in every one's tummy. Then we came back to our rig and just hung out. It made for a real nice afternoon. We'll be seeing them again soon whenever we get to Bremerton. LOL LOL

Jason, Dan, and Teresa looking much too serious for me. I'm looking at them telling them to smile, smile, SMILE. Hmmmmmmmmm

Now, this is better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jason, me, and Teresa. Not near as serious and I didn't even have to tickle Jason in the side. hahahaha

Dan and I went to the Lucky Eagle Casino for the Friday night seafood buffet. OMG! It was MOST excellent! Usually the fish on the buffet is fried or breaded, something I can't eat. This time there was 4 different types of fish that had been grilled. Made me a happy camper. All the years I've lived in the Puget Sound area and had access to crab, I'd never eaten snow crab and dungeness crab in one sitting. I never realized how salty snow crab is. It was awful after having the dungeness. No more snow crab for me. Even if its mostly always the cheapest in the grocery stores, I'll wait until I can buy dungeness. What a difference! After eating we went out into the casino to each spend our 20 bucks a piece. I sat down at a slot machine that I'd never seen before and the next thing I knew, I was 130 bucks and change ahead. YIPPEE! Time to quit. Cashed out and walked out with money in my pocket. Dan came out 9 cents ahead. LOL LOL LOL. Better then being in the hole.

WOOHOO! Dan's youngest daughter Audrey stopped by the RV park with her kids to see us. They are out and about on a little holiday and we were on their way.  We had a short visit and then they were on their way. We hadn't seen them since we left Bremerton last summer. Audrey always seems to end up wherever we are parked before we get home...This fella below is Caleb who just turned 16. Dan's oldest "grand".

This big guy is Nicholas. He gave me the big smile so we could see his current missing tooth.

Here is Dan with Tiffany, one of two girl "grands".

Audrey with her dad.

Gotta put Bella in here. Shes been so good when out walking on the leash, even though she doesn't like it.

Different flowers around the RV park. Not gonna look up the names of the ones I don't know or can't remember. Just enjoy the pretty colors.

Oh, look! Dan and Patty are staying at this park. Thats their rig in the right hand corner. lol lol lol....Cool looking "Christmas tree".

Pretty rhododendrons

Seen these workers out in the field working. The fields are across the street from the RV park. Dan thinks they were weeding cucumbers. I had seen them earlier in the day harvesting some sort of lettuce. Maybe bib lettuce.

Dan and Bella out walking. They were checking out the workers in the field.

Just another pretty flower.

Now, I know the name of this one. Wisteria........

And yet another color rhododendron

We left our nice spot on the Columbia River.  Headed west on I-84 along the river in Oregon. We decided to spend one night on our way to Washington. I had made a reservation at Portland East/Cascade Locks KOA. Not the best thing I have ever done. This park was not our cup of tea and we were both glad it was for only one night. The park had everything you wanted. Regular KOA amenities. BUT! It was a small park with a gazillion tall fir trees. Narrow little roads among the trees. Dan got us parked and set up and we both felt very closed in. We felt trapped in the trees. Of course our satellite was useless there so we used their wifi and cable. We won't be going back to this park again. In the pictures below my camera was having a problem. Something wrong with my lens and I end up with black in the corners. grrrrrrrrrrr............

I did like seeing that the rhododendrons are blooming.

Nothing but trees, trees, and more trees......

This tree was kind of cool though.....

And, here we are surrounded by trees. It may look like its bright outside, but it really wasn't.........

We left the dark KOA and drove almost all the way to our next destination in the rain.

Yup. And more rain. Oh, welcome to Washington. It was a VERY rainy travel day. It finally quit raining when we were about 25 miles from Rochester, WA where we are camped now.......

This is where we are for a week. A "mom and pop" park and a good place to "sit" while all the crazies are out on the road for the long Memorial Day weekend. There are NO trees where we are parked and our satellite dish loves that!!!!!!!!!!!!

A much better parking spot. There are lots of pretty flowers in the park and if I can get my camera to work properly, I'll be taking pictures of them. Dan and Bella have walked all over the park.

We're only about 5 miles from the Lucky Eagle Casino, so we'll be going to the Friday night seafood buffet. Probably won't do too much else. Just chill and be retired cause we can.

We've been parked here 4 nights and it seems like a very long time. We really like it here. Having a piece of property would be nice to have in the Umatilla area. Or over across the Columbia on the way to Kennewick. I personally love the open spaces without all the big trees. That sounds kind of bad seeing as I was raised on the Kitsap Peninsula in Bremerton. LOTS of trees!!!!!!!!!!!! I just like vast openness like in the picture below..........Dan got his drivers license. Thats one thing he can cross of his "to do" list. I went to Safeway while he was doing the "waiting game" at the DOL and then after he was done we went to Starbucks. We hadn't been to a Starbucks since the middle of April. I've been in the little town of Umatilla at the laundry mat and we've just been hanging out here at home. Bella loves climbing all the big trees here. We couldn't see the solar eclipse but we did see about 50 shades of grey and white clouds that was covering it. hahahahahahahahaha. I guess it was a cool thing to see. Later that day, well actually at night, we had thunder and lightning and rain rain rain. Today its windy. Wouldn't have been the best travel day. We leave here tomorrow, 5/23, and head out on I-84 along the Columbia River. Hoping to take some pictures tomorrow.


We tried to take Bella down to the beach but it didn't work. The traffic on the bridge, the noisy boats in the water, and the waves slapping up on shore scared her. She just wasn't sure about it all. We've been watching big barges go under the bridge. Pretty cool. Haven't had my camera with me to take any pictures yet.





This is looking the other way from the beach. Our rig is the one in the middle. We got the only spot along the water that our satellite dish didn't have to try and "look" through big trees. hahahahaha.


This little ball of green came from a Sycamore tree. Kind of cool looking. I have it sitting on top of my diet tea bottle. I had to ask the camp host what kind of tree it came from. I had no idea.


This is the next step at to what it looks like. Strange. If I could get a picture of the final step of the "ball" all in tact, that would be cool. They turn into fluffy fly away things. I stepped on some of these and they just fall apart and if its windy, fly away.


Here is a picture of one starting to change into the fluffy stuff. I tried to pick up some of the ones that changed all the way, but they just fall apart in between your fingers. I put this picture in later then the others and can't figure out how to get it even with the other pictures. grrrrrrrrrr. Something I'll have to work on I suppose. My blog site is forcing me to use Google Chrome and its way different then IE.

And, did you really expect that the blog entry wouldn't have a picture of Bella? LOL LOL LOL

Had another good travel day. No wind to speak of and the sky was clear. The scenery is changing as you can see in the two pictures below. Snow capped mountains in the distance. A real good place for the snow to stay. WAY in the distance! hahahahaha. I never even looked up the name of these mountains, but we are on I-84 in northeast Oregon.

I LOVE this picture. I don't know how many times we've passed this sign and I never have my camera out. Just in case you can't read it, here is what it says.......45th Parallel. Half way between the equator and north pole. Cool.

We are staying at Umatilla Marina and RV Park in Oregon. Right on the mighty Columbia River. We will be staying here for 5 nights. We've stayed here before and its a nice place to stay put for several days. Dan has to go to Kennewick, WA to get his drivers license renewed. This bridge is going across the Columbia from Oregon to Washington and we will be traveling across it to Kennewick.

Very cool tree in the above picture and a close up of the sweet smelling blossoms. Not sure what it is. Guess I'll ask the camp host.

Here is our camping spot. Nice nice nice.......

And, another view of our spot.......

Oh yes, Bella has been in the trees already. Shes loving it here.

The view from our door. Looking across the Columbia River into Washington. Just happened to be a freight train going by.

We are now at Mountain Home RV Park. Guess where? Mountain Home, Idaho! hahahaha.....This is a NICE park. I was afraid that our satellite wouldn't work as there are lots of trees here, but they gave us a nice spot with NO trees. Woohoo for no trees!!!!!!!!! This spot is about 110' long, so Dan thinks. Lots of room for 5th wheel and truck. And, Dan is pleased because he can wash the truck here in our parking spot. Usually RV parks won't allow you to wash your vehicles. Our poor truck looks pretty bad as it hasn't had a bath since leaving Quartzsite, AZ a month ago. We are staying here for two nights and will stay here again............The picture below is the last one I took at Snowville, Utah. Bella caught her first mouse. All she did was play with it

Next two pictures are where we are right now, in Mountain Home RV Park.

Our next stop is Baker City, Oregon at Mountain View RV Park for only one night(5/17).