GrandCamp Idaho and Visiting with Family

Bob and I traveled the last leg of our trip to Idaho last Friday, passing the Snake River as it disappeared and reappeared alongside the highway.

We settled into our campground in Caldwell and welcomed daughter Emily, her husband Anthony, and their four beautiful children with a cookout. The children have gotten so big since I saw them in March, and the boys looked huge to us!

After a nice visit, the parents and two youngest returned home leaving us with Quinn and Eve for two days. They have already returned to school so we had to make the most of the weekend. It was so good to spend time with them! They played in the campground pool and game room, and we did lots of crafts…paper dolls, puzzles, rubber band bracelets, Shrinky  Dinks, and painting. And of course we had s’mores!

Later in the week Bob gussied up Emily’s mantle by adding an inner frame to surround the newly painted black wall. Even though it is shallow, the new trim gives a feeling of depth and looks so nice. 

The week went all too quickly, ending up with a meal at Casa Del Matador and a walk around the Village in Meridian. What a fun time we had!

Then we were off again, this time heading south. Originally we had made reservations in Oregon and Washington but the fires out there were causing real problems with air pollution and we decided to return to Mesa early. It has been hazy since we got to Idaho and the haze is worse the farther west you go.

We spent our first night at Buster’s Restaurant and Saloon in Hollister, Idaho, where they have an RV park out back. We had a pull-thru site just steps from the Saloon, and Bob spent quite a bit of time chatting with the owner who dreams of retiring to the road in a motorhome he is working on.

I’ve been working on these knitted fish wash cloths, and also and using my 6” pin loom to make squares for  baby blanket (pics of the blanket to come later.)

It will only take us a total of four nights to get back to Mesa, and I’m looking forward to getting back and settling in. We changed time zones again as we entered Nevada so we are now on Mountain Time, three hours behind our family and friends on the East Coast.