Sunday, August 28, 2011

BoatAversary Weekend

FRIDAY August 26 - Got lattes in the morning with hubby. He has Friday & Monday for vacation for our Anniversary! Prior to starting our vacation weekend, he went up to Sandpoint with Earl to recycle metal. When he returned home, we had to return Bronco to Chris in Hayden. Hubby also forced me to go with him to pick up parts in Spokane, WA. Bud came with us and I walked him while we wasted 2 hours of the day. We finally got on board boat Friday night with Bud & Lil Bit to stay the night. Hubby vacuumed boat. Kids came over to stay the night with us at the Marina so that we had electricity. It took them 2 hours to get over here because of traffic, accidents & construction. I went home to get first aid kit & cinnamon rolls we had ordered.

Hubby got me cards, plant, sand buckets & toys, m&ms for anniversary. Suprised me by having them on the boat already.

Hubby is Sweet

SATURDAY August 27 -KRN & I went to pick up lattes from Jen Bunny at Espresso stand. She had been at concert so was a few minutes late to work. Invited her to come on boat when she got off work. We went back to boat with lattes & cinnamon rolls.

Hubby attempted to go up Clark Fork River, but it was too shallow. When turning the boat around, he beached it on 1 foot of water. Fortunately, some nice boaters came by and pulled us out. Our engines started and there was no damage to the boat! Thank goodness.

Stayed overnight at Beyond Hope Resort.

Walked up to see all the deer at David Thompson Game Refuge on Lake Pend Oreille

 Matt talking to Deer

Had dinner at the restaurant there. Ivano's Ristorante. Yuck. Horrible food. Too dark. No light at table. Could not see undercooked steak. Raw. Ick.

Boat parked in the twilight

Next morning, I was harrassed twice about paying moorage even after we paid it! I am filing a complaint on the internet about them. Expensive moorage at $30 a night NOT WORTH IT. Drunks came down to dock & bothered dogs. Tried to get into a fight with KRN. Next morning we found out that Sheriff came down to haul her away! Yippee.

Butterfly that hung out on boat for quite a while. Got some pics of him.
Butterfly


SUNDAY August 28 - Hung out around Table Rock and swam. Kelsey swam with Beebo over to the beach. He had fun. Then I took Lil Bit in the float over to the beach. He proceed to run away from me. Rocks were too big to walk on. Hurt the feet. He finally got caught with his leash on a branch. Took him back then we left. Motored over to Lakeview to potty dogs. Saw a huge beautiful Canadian Goose with a broken wing. We fed him quite a lot of bread.

Canadian Goose

Kids left at 3PM when we dropped them off at the Marina. A huge sailboat was parked in our area, so we had to park down by the gasoline tanks. It was stinky, we were tired & hurting, so we went home to stay the night.


MONDAY  August 29 - ANNIVERSARY! 30 YEARS. It doesn't seem like that long ago...

We got up early to get lattes from Heather down at the Espresso Stand then returned to the boat. We had left air conditioning on in the boat all night (Gary mentioned it to me.) Then motored out to Buttonhook Cove to hang out for a while. The day had started out very cloudy & cold but got warmer. There was only one other boat moored there and a sailboat across the cove. We fed ducks that flocked to us, then walked up trail, then swam for a bit. It got cold as there was a strong breeze blowing (along with a nasty smell of field burning) so we decided to pack it in and return to the Marina around 2:30PM.

 Ducks

Cleaned boat up, washed the windows, took up all the carpets, sprayed water on the aft area, vacuumed up the cabin area & I cleansed all the area with Clorox wipes. Need to power wash the carpets & put them back in.

Had a nice couple (Lynn & Jim) visit our boat & look around to admire it. Then we packed everything up that was left to go home. Hubby talked with Earl a bit at the shop, then we unloaded stuff at house. Went into town to have Anniversary dinner at Red Lobster.

 Red Lobster Anniversary Dinner

Got deer feed at WalMart, burgers for dogs at Wendy's, washed car at Car Wash. Returned home at 10:00PM. Saw deer walk across our driveway when we pulled in. Watched news and went to bed.

Isabelle went outside at 1AM.

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