Home

Happy Easter!  We arrived home on Tuesday, April 19th, such a bittersweet feeling.  It's been busy trying to unpack, get ready for Easter, celebrating Rees' 9th birthday, and just settling in.  I will be writing a summary soon of our trip and give some final thoughts.  I still cannot give you our reason for ending our journey early, but I will hopefully be able to do that real soon.  It has been an amazing time in our lives!  Looking forward to more...

Bozeman, Montana

We arrived into Bozeman, Montana late in the afternoon yesterday.  We came through beautiful Coeur D'Alene, Idaho and even encountered some snow.  As we were trying to unhook and set up camp...this dam trailer broke again.  The landing gear would not come down or up, so we cannot get the trailer off the truck.  We had to have a mobile repair man come out and jack the trailer up so we could get the jacks back up.  We were going to just leave and head home, but decided we really wanted to spend some time here with our friends, so we rented a car so we could get around, and we are leaving the trailer hooked up to the truck.  It was really cold here yesterday and last night, but this morning looks to be a beautiful day.

Leaving Oregon

We are leaving Corvallis, Oregon tomorrow.  We will be headed back to our home in Minnesota, a little sooner than expected. ( I will explain more later).  We have had a great time hanging out with the family.  But it's time to get back on the road.  We are headed up through Washington and then through Idaho and Montana.  We will be stopping in Montana to visit some the same friends we started out our journey visiting, I guess we are bringing our journey full circle.

Corvallis - Oregon

View from our room

Here we are again, back hanging out with my mom, sister, and her family.  We arrived on Wednesday, March, 30th.  This time we are parked in the driveway across the street...her neighbor has a large, graveled in area for our rig.   The kids are enjoying staying in their Mirma's(grandma) house at night.  This last weekend was girls weekend...yahoo!  My mom, sister and I went over to the coast and stayed in my dad's condo that he has there.  It over looks the ocean, it was absolutely beautiful and relaxing.  My mom only stayed one night and then headed back to check on the rest of the gang.  While she was there we had a great time eating, drinking, and relaxing, and doing some facial masks.  On Saturday, my sister and I went glass blowing and made these beautiful glass floats.  It was so great, it was interesting, relaxing and extremely fun.  We then spent the rest of the day shopping and then stopped in this little bar called the Sea Hag.  We were not prepared for how much fun we were going to have,  we were just going to stop and have one drink, but that turned into a few drinks.  The bar tenders break out in song by playing all the bar bottles with wooden spoons, it was awesome!  There was then some live music and then another round of bar bottle playing and this time it was done to the chicken song/dance...so of course we had to get up and participate in the chicken dance.
We then headed back to the condo for an enjoyable evening of movies.  We were sad when we had to leave and head back.  I was glad we had that chance to hang out and enjoy each other!