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Mountain Home, ID - 2025

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We typically stay halfway at our favorite winery between Vancouver WA and Mountain Home ID. This time we stayed at a ranch. We had a great level spot and got to admire these beautiful horses. I think they thought I had something for them because the minute I walked near the fencing they came over. Wheat I was invited to craft night at the Mountain Home Public Library. We inserted a thin wire into the stem of a dandelion and wrapped the remainder around a rock. Then we were able to decorate around that rock and adding any other things that were available. What a fun project. Before After We bought the Worst-Case Scenario game because the Lathrop family also loves to play games. We added some extra tokens so all 8 of us could play. We learned how the younger generations think differently on what they think about situations. We also introduced them to Uno Flex, Uno Teams and Phase 10 Flip. With temps in the 90's, it was an amazing day floating down the Boise River. Waiting for the guy...

Vancouver, WA - 2025

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  We had a great time visiting Eric, Jessica and family in Vancouver WA . We typically stay at an RV park in Portland, OR. One thing we were reminded of quickly is the drive from Portland over the bridge to Washington on  I-5 was ridiculous starting around 1-2pm until after 8pm. We spent a few hours with Eric and Jessica that first weekend driving to some other parks on the Washington side. We feel we have found a better location for next year so we don't have to deal with that crazy traffic again. Eric and Jessica invited us to their date night at Oak Creek Station to play bingo on Wednesday night. This place is pretty cool with many food trucks with a different variety of food. Their bingo nights are sponsored by different breweries in the area. If you purchase a beverage from the sponsored brewery you get 2 bingo cards, every other beverage is 1 bingo card. The sponsored brewery had some cool prizes and someone from that brewery called the numbers. We also tried a Trivia ni...