We are closing out July the same way that we started it out: Homeless. We woke up this morning to a cold, cloudy day. The kind of morning where you expect it to start raining on you, but it never does. The air matress has to be acknowledged as a success, because we didn't even wake up in time to go to the Farmer's Market. If you don't get there in the first couple of hours, all the good stuff is gone (Rule #1 of the market. Rule #2 is never talk about the market). We made up for the lack of fresh fruit with a nice batch of campstove pancakes, and around noon the clouds cleared away and we had another sunny, 80 degree day.
We are still camping out at the KOA campground outside of town. We spent a while going through the list of things we could do: bowling, watch a movie, go to a u-pick farm, drive to the coast, etc. We are still pretty set against getting back in the car for any extended period of time, especially with a Portland excursion planned for Monday afternoon to pick up Kirby and Mr. Plant. We stayed a little low-key today, stopping for lunch at a deli in town and then going to the cinema to see Inception. Actually, we walked up to the movie theater to see what the movies were, both figuring we would be choosing Toy Story 3, but it wasn't on for a couple hours, so we chose Inception. It was the first time I had ever gone to a move without the slightest idea of the plot or who any of the main actors were (you do not see many movie promos when you are homeless!), but it was great.
We left the theater and decided to get some ice cream. Jenny was convinced the Dairy Queen was downtown next to the Mexican restaurant we ate at last night (wrong, it was a Baskin Robbins). Robbie was convinced that it was next to the Safeway on the other side of town (also wrong, it was a Burger King). After driving around for a half an hour, we gave up our search and let Tom-Tom get us there. The sad thing is the town actually has TWO Dairy Queens, and we couldn't find either one.
Either way, we ended our evening back at camp. We are continuing to be patient, and are hoping (and planning!) that tomorrow is the day we hear about the house that we want!
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Sounds like the bed of "air and happiness" was a success...glad you had a good night's sleep and it sounds like the campstove is finally becoming useful :) Here's hoping for success in getting the new place and glad you get to see the rest of the "family" on Monday!
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