Wednesday Aug 30 – Olympia,WA

If you found “errors” in yesterday’s blog, I apologize. I ran out of time to do a thorough edit and rather than delay posting another day, I submitted “as-is”. Later I noticed my thumb in the picture – sorry about that! (Then to make matters worse, when I logged on today (Wednesday), found that yesterday's blog hadn't been posted! Sometimes the web-site is a little flaky, or the Internet connection wasn't as reliable as I thought.)

We visited another gourmet food store yesterday! Bayview Thriftmart. The name doesn’t sound like a gourmet food store, but we found lots of goodies, particularly in the cheese section. Really too bad that our fridge can’t hold any more stuff. Guess we should start eating what we’ve got!

One piece of good news. When we checked into the current RV park, they told us we had to leave on 1 September because they were booked solid for Labor Day weekend. There is another campground close by that I could get into but it’s not as nice as this one. Yesterday, we were told they had a cancellation so we could stay, but in another site. So we moved – about 40 yards! But this site has more foliage around it so we feel like we’re really in the woods. Never thought I’d be happy to move 40 yards, but the effort to disconnect / connect / set-up the motor home is a lot easier than the trailer. Plus all the sites in this RV park are back-ins – no pull-thrus. Getting the trailer into this site would have been a pain (never conquered backing), but the motorhome is just an overgrown car when it comes to backing.

So we are pretty much set for location. Our plan is to leave the 7th and head over to Sequim to see Shell and Lyn McGuire – long-time friends. Shell and I worked together at Hughes Aircraft back in the 80’s.

The photo is from the sand-castle contest on Sunday in Olympia. I didn’t have the wide angle lens and there were too many people to get it all in. But it was a “mural” of Japan complete with a temple, Mt. Fuji, and the Samurai and Geisha. I believe it won the best of show.

Off to another fun-filled day in the northwest. We were supposed to have a little rain last night – after 72 days of no rain – but I didn’t hear it.

Wayne