More Chimacum, WA

Couldn't resist the pic of the Iowa chop, marinated with "Naked Rub" and cooked to perfection!!! Yum for sure. A few more shots of things in the park. The forest pic is near our site on the way to the off-lease dog park. The downed trees with branches growing out of them are called "nurse logs". Mother nature sure has a way of taking care of herself. Lots of yard decorations and someone did a little serenity garden. Kinda neat. We also have a park near by which is a multiplex that has a soccer, baseball, and disk golf field. There was a cool big fish on a trailer parked there. The last pic is us all dressed up to go out to celebrate our friend's 50th anniversary.

We are leaving this lovely area tomorrow, and heading to Lakewood, WA to visit friends, Rob and Cathy. Tom will also take time to see the Lemay Auto Museum in Tacoma.

Chimacum, WA and Surrounding Area

Not a whole lot of news this week. We went out to the Indian Casino, 7 Cedars, and found it pretty nice. Tom played the penny slots and after 2 visits to the casino, netted about $40.75 profit!!! After eating at one of their restaurants that took care of that!!! I took a picture of the little light house they had out by our clubhouse, for our friend Cheryl. Speaking of Cheryl she sent Donna a very nice beaded cardinal to go in the window. Thanks! Our SKP park has some very nice folks in it. We've gone to some of the activities/socials and really enjoyed them. They have one older gentleman that really stands out. He's 92 years old and there ain't much he can't do. I took a pic of him "packing" the trash in the dumpster! Our neighbor said he welded a crack up on his water heater tank on his rig and did a great job. He runs around the park like a daylight burglar. Ha. Our daughter and GD took a Southwest Airline plane trip to Louisiana to visit friends. Here, Julia looked into the cockpit to check things out and the Pilot (female) got up and invited Julia to sit in here seat. Wow! While seated, the male co-pilot, told Julia the pilot was the boss of the plane. Julia was VERY impressed to say the least. Wish I could have seen that! And lastly, we went to visit an area famous hamburger joint. It's called "Fat Smitty's" It's one those small place that only take cash. You have to bring a dollar a person to hang from the ceiling or posted on the wall. When things get full, the bills are donated to a children's charity. So kewl. We've seen places like this in our travels. When we went to check the place out we had just eaten at the casino, so we plan eating there soon. Not cheap, but they sure looked good. Hope your summer is a good one. Until later.......

Our Time with Rob and Cathy, San Juan Islands, etc.

Our Excel friends Rob and Cathy came up to Anacortes and spent three fabulous days with us. We did some sight seeing, ate out, and we did chicken and ribs at our place. They were celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary with us. We also went to Mt. Erie where we saw a nice view of the San Juan, Islands, Mt. Baker, and overlooking the town of Anacortes. Weather was super as usual and we had such a great time. Rob and Cathy are so laid back they are up for just about anything. What fun we had. Can't wait to see them again soon. After they left, Donna and I took a ferry ride to the San Juan Island and spent the day sight seeing. Toured the Whale museum, and learned a lot about them. Then took a shuttle the island to just check it out in general. What a nice day.

Just outside of the Indian Casino near Anacortes, there were firework stands. Check out the Breast Cancer Awareness one. Funny and something for a good cause. Proceeds went to the fight against breast cancer.

Our friends Paul and Mary sent Tom the wild and crazy pink Cadillac T-shirt from the Pink Cadillac Diner in VA!!! Pink t-shirt and red wine, now there's a pair! Then my sister, who knows Donna and I are nuts over hippos (we used to collect hippo stuff when we were in our stick and brick). She was heading a tour at the San Diego Zoo and found this fabulous t-shirt. What a great gal. Hippo t-shirts are kinda hard to find, too . Thanks T!!!

Closing up and leaving Anacortes was hard as we loved it alot. Road the ferry from Coupeville (I keep saying Coupe de Ville!!!) to Port Townsend to come to our new home for the month of July, Chimacum, WA. Tiny town, in between Port Townsend and Sequim, WA. We're staying at the SKP Coop park of Evergreen COHO. Nice, older, well groomed park with large sites. We believe we'll like it here. More adventures in a day or two. Hope all are enjoying their summer, so far.