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Today started out with a leisurely pancake breakfast (with huckleberry syrup! 😋), some corn hole at our camp site, then we headed to Silverwood around 10:30 so we could save a good spot for the day at Boulder Beach. We were able to get the very same picnic table spot that we had last year, and a few lounge chairs right on the lazy river. The kids had a blast! I hardly saw them for hours. Finally they were all back at the same time, and we went on Avalanche Mountain together. I also hung out in one of the wave pools with Tenley, Kenton and Ellie for a bit, but other than that you could find me floating the lazy river or napping in my lounge chair.  Around 5:00, we changed into dry clothes and headed back to finish out the day on some rides.  But first... Dippin’ Dots ice cream (and cotton candy for mom.) Not pictured here are Amy, Jeff and my super brave niece Ellie who also went on Timber Terror with us. Kenton did the Panic Plunge for a 3rd time, this time with Rob. And, he ...

We will call this day 1 of our road trip, even though we left late last night. Since we got an early start we had time to stop at Spokane’s Riverfront Park and feed the garbage goat, something I did when I was the kids’ age (that goat is OLD! Lol) We biked around the park, the kids love sliding down the slide of the giant red wagon (which I just realized I didn’t get a picture of but I did do a Facebook live. I was a little distracted because right as we biked into the park, lots of cop cars showed up and right across the bridge from where we were they had to pull their guns and take down an armed man that had apparently been attacking another man. Praise God for keeping us safe.) We finished our ride with Kona ice then headed into Coeur d’Alene to meet up with my dad and spend some time on the lake. We parked the RV on the campus of North Idaho College, where I got my associates degree back in 1999, and walked across the street to this beautiful beach.  The water was the perfect t...