Bow, WA. July 2019

Little slow getting this posted as when we arrived at our new stop a cold hit both of us so just now feeling better. 

Stayed in Mt. Vernon Thousand Trails, sure enjoy this area.

The park has plenty of activities on the weekends, which we enjoy.  One weekend it was the poker run, any time you were at the store, office or went to an activity you got a playing card.  Best hand wins.  Len wasn't the top winner but took second with a full house.  Talk about hauling in the loot.  We won what I would call a bar-b-q package. It included a portable bar-b-q, charcoal, lighter fluid, bar-b-q tools. A national park monopoly game, and everything you need to make smores, plus a stuffed bear.

The park serves a breakfast buffet on the weekend, they sure have a great cook there.  There was biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs, pancakes, French toast, bacon and sausage, am I making you hungry?  Also on the weekends they do hot dogs and burgers.  One night we enjoyed a brisket dinner.

We played bingo a couple of times also, had some nice prizes to give away.

One Saturday night it was adult only bull riding at the pool.  So fun to watch, even better after a few adult beverages, I can tell you, there wasn't one cowboy or cowgirl that stayed on the bull for long everyone had a wild time.

There is a casino close to the entrance of the park, we stopped in a few times, it was the usual, leave some money, break even or take a little extra home, but was fun.

We were able to meet up with Randy and Step Corbin that we met a few years back when we were on the East Coast, such a fun couple.  We enjoyed lunch and got caught up with all our travels. Took a drive over to one of the other Thousand Trails Park, La Conner, stopped at a fish market and enjoyed an ice cream, also hit another casino in the area and we both walked out with more than we went in with.

One day we visited the Pidilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve have stopped here before but enjoy the small aquariums they have. In the heart of the Salish Sea, they study and protect a massive eelgrass meadow. At more than 8,000 acres, it's the second largest on North America's Pacific Coast.  Eelgrass is used as a nursery by juvenile salmon, crab, and herring. It also provides critical habitat for waterfowl and marine birds. 

Catch you next time when we share our next adventure.