The following pictures are posted backwards in time. Sometimes blogging is confusing for us old fogies and we get it all mixed up. The last pictures shown are of the Civil War Enactment that took place at Little Diamond RV Park near Newport the very weekend that we camped there. It was pretty neat to hear the talks and see the battles. On July 12th when we left Newport, WA behind we headed west towards the ocean. Our first stop however was just a bit short of the ocean but involved lots of water nonetheless......Grand Coulee Dam. You know Ed and his water stuff.....he just loves it!! We took a tour of the dam and stayed up one night until 10pm to see the nightly laser show. It doesn't get dark up here in the summer until very late so we are becoming night owls. Boy, will that all change during winter at home.....early to bed, early to rise!!
Just a short jaunt away from Grand Coulee, we stopped and camped at Crescent Bar TT Park for a few days. It was nestled down in a little curve of the river and was great for water sports such as boating and jetskiing....but we didn't have either. Oh well, we found things to do and visited another dam called Rocky Reach, toured the Ohme Gardens (a beautiful Eden created out of a barren hillside years ago) and visited wineries. We had some warm days during this time but that changed with our next stop up in the Cascades off I-90 called Lake Easton. Pictures will be posted of this area soon!!
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Dry Falls - site of massive Ice Age flooding
Rendition of Dry Falls about 12,000 years ago
Ohme Gardens
One of the many ponds at Ohme Gardens
View of the Columbia River from Ohme Gardens
Cherries ready to be picked
This flag was at the Rockiy Reach Dam.
The flowers used are Lobelias, Red & Blue Begonias & Gold Marigolds
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
We’ve been neglectful in our postings and haven’t blogged in over a month. So we’ll play a little catchup here. First week of June we arrived in Spokane Valley to visit my son Trent, wife Dalynn and 3 granddaughters Tatum 12, Kiki 6, and Raegan 3. We spent the first week there visiting and waiting for school to get out for summer vacation. On June 18 we gathered the 3 granddaughters up, stuffed them in Bruzer and headed off for a marathon 2 week trip to Yellowstone and Mt Rushmore. It was a difficult trip as Ed and I are not getting any younger but we made it through and all managed to have a bit of fun in the process. Here’s the pictures to prove it!!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)