Day 2 - Relaxing morning, hit the road to Jerome, ID KOA - stopped at a small park in industrial N. Salt Lake City and to play at a park in Snowyville, UT. KOA was nice - Autumn loved helping with tent set up and camp cooking. The pools was too cold so swimming didn't last long, but the park was a hit. The big slide even scared her a little - scared is a rare emotion in her world... Slept pretty well!
Day 3 - Through Boise and west to Crane, OR. Lunch was a congested/construction stop in Boise. Filled up with gas before leaving ID and then made it to our lovely hot springs campground Crystal Crane Hot Springs. What's not to love about a natural hot springs pond, big teepee, ducks, cows, horses and bunny's? Autumn and Aaron hung out in the AC'ed commons area much of the evening, we made meals in the shared kitchen - not very rustic for camping - but really a nice mixed between camping and having a cabin.
Day 5 - I was kind of hoping after the park and pool that we'd get a long nights sleep. Autumn went down around 10 and I dinked on the computer until 11:30. I woke around 6 to see the most beautiful sunrise out our balcony door.
Then Autumn woke at 6:30 - luckily she cuddled until nearly 7:30. Aaron went to spend time with the guys last night, so we went down stairs to get breakfast and let him sleep. Our host made a delicious breakfast with a waffle, berries, whipped cream and bacon. We went back upstairs watched a video and then got stuck playing for a while! We then took off for the park 4 blocks away which is right next to the wedding venue. We had a great time riding the train to Triatica, Triathlon and Nebraska, running through the forest, playing hide and seek and playing on the equipment. Autumn climbed some trees on the way back to the B&B for lunch. We wanted to rest and relax and actually got to! Autumn fell asleep for a couple of hours. We got ready for the wedding and Aaron and Autumn walked there. I didn't get things going fast enough and went ahead and drove the 4 blocks. The wedding was lovely and it was nice having a park right there for intermittent wiggle breaks. We enjoyed long time friends and met some new ones. We stayed until the dancing was done and the bride and groom left. The pictures from the wedding got their own post here.
Day 6 - Day with friends! We got up and went down stairs for an amazing Eggs Benedict breakfast and then sorted and packed all our things up. Amazing how much stuff we had packed up to the room in 2 days. We checked out and headed to a Vineyard for brunch with the wedding party and other out of town guests. It was an amazing and delicious meal - I think I ate 3 days worth of food - omelet, waffle, fruit, honey roasted mac nuts, chocolate covered mac nuts... yum.... We then spent the rest of the afternoon with friends - hanging out and going to see Silver Falls State Park.
We went back to the groom's house for dinner and
fun. Autumn and I left at bedtime for the hotel - she cried for at
least 5 minutes because she wanted to stay with the guys.
Day 7: Off to the Palouse! We woke around 8, grabbed continental breakfast and hit the road down the Columbus river and up into Washington. We thought it would be a much longer drive, but we arrived at the Watson's in time for dinner! Good to see our good friends, be at our Pullman home, and meet Vivi for the first time!!!!
