Sept 28 & 29 Coeur d Alene

Our last vacation in the motor home was part of my four days off and we decided to stay close to home because the electricity still wasn’t working properly. We also had to make sure that we had power so we decided to camp at the Blackwell Island RV park in Coeur d Alene. It is a nice RV park just off Highway 95 on the way to Moscow, Idaho. We were going to stay at the Alpine RV Park out by Hayden Lake but they were only open until Saturday and we wanted to stay until Sunday, it turned out that the Blackwell Island site was closer to everything so we didn’t have to do as much driving. I had got a bad cold on the Monday before we left and basically lost my voice, so since I couldn’t work we decided to leave after Len got off work instead of waiting until Thursday morning, I figured I could be sick in my lawn chair recuperating in the sun just as well as I could lying on my couch watching TV. Len got off work at two and we headed south. I slept almost the whole way.

We got to the RV park, got signed in, setup in our spot and I promptly fell asleep in my chair reading a book. We went for a walk around the park in the evening, it is a very nice location, quite big, I imagine in the summer that it is extremely crowded.

Well we got up early on Wednesday morning and decided to go and check out downtown Coeur d Alene. We parked in the downtown lot and went to explore the shopping by the Coeur d Alene resort, because that was the only place that was open this early. As we were walking along we found a very cool toy store, here we found some very interesting educational toys for the grandchildren and a couple of cool games for us. We also found a local book about Mudgy the Moose and his playmate Millie Mouse. They are characters in a book written by a local author and the story takes place throughout the area. There was also a statue of the two characters just outside the store.

We then found an antique consignment store that took up over four stories. It was open on our way back to the car. Earlier in the morning we saw a little dog that was sleeping on a chair in the window, it was black and white and looked just like Lindy and Emma when they were puppies, it looked so lifelike that we both had to look twice to see that it wasn’t real. So since the shop was open we decided to go in and check to see how much that doggie in the window was. It was a bargain at just $4.00 so we got in and found a few more items. Now the puppy sleeps quietly on the arm of the chair where Emma used to sit and watch the neighborhood. After this store we drove out towards the golf course along the lake shore. We stopped for a couple of easy geocaches but I was pretty tired, so we headed back to the campsite. We spent the rest of the day reading and napping.