So on March 18th we left beautiful California and headed up towards Washington state. We stopped in Corning, CA for one of our stops, we just pulled into a campground later in the night. We then headed up to Corvallis, OR. As we are headed that way we tune into the travel/weather news because the lights were flashing on the road sign regarding travel and the weather that was approaching. We are getting ready to go over the mountains by Mount Shasta, but chins are required...are you kidding me...it's MARCH, isn't this suppose to be over. Anyway, we bought some chains just to show the highway patrol so we could go over the pass. So many people were turned away due to no chains. We had to wait in a long line of traffic while highway patrol checked each truck and car for chains. Why would you wait in that line(it was like 45 min. of waiting) and not have your chains, only to have to turn around and go back! It was snowing up towards the top of the pass, all I could think was...what are we doing, we have been staying away from this stuff since we left, yet here we are right smack dab in the middle of SNOW! We watched the temperature continue to go down as we sat in 31 degrees, YUCK! We hit traffic again at the top as the truckers were pulled over and putting on their chains. It took us about 2 extra hours just to get over the pass. After we got over the pass we thought it was going to be smooth sailing...not so fast, let's just add a little hail storm before you get to your destination!!! Anyway we made it and stopped at my sister's house to hang out with them and my mom. We had called ahead to let them know when we would be in and to request that my mom whip up some tuna casserole, a family favorite. Of course she did and we had a very comforting dinner with family. The cousins all got to hang out and have some fun before we took off the next day.
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