Saturday, March 24, 2012 (Travel to Pendleton, Oregon)

We were up at 6:00 again this morning...I enjoy having my coffee time before we have to get going.  I was having a shower while Steve was sitting at the table having breakfast when Suzanne came out of their coach with their toaster...and proceeded to throw it up in the air!  Yesterday while we were shopping she was looking for bread because she really craved toast and peanut butter for breakfast.  Well, I guess the toaster stopped working right in the middle of making her toast...obviously that didn`t make her very happy!!  When I came out of the shower, Steve told me to look outside...a toaster was sitting in the grass...too funny!  A couple of minutes later, Dennis was out sheepishly gathering the toaster.  Well, I guess what he had discovered was that the toaster and the space heater were on the same circuit and had blown a fuse...the toaster still works after all!  Okay, that was a good way of emptying out all the crumbs out of the toaster!  I would have loved to have gotten a picture of her throwing the toaster!

It was 9:15 when we pulled out of Mountain Home RV Park...a very nice park (one of the nicest private parks we have stayed at) with very nice people running it!  We will definitely stop here again should our route south or north bring us to this area...a great stop-over spot.

It was prettty overcast as we headed north(west) on Interstate 84...

 
We crossed the Snake River again....

...as we entered Oregon...

We stopped at a rest area for lunch...

...and Steve re-torqued the trailer tires...

The area is now starting to get a little mountainous...

Now the part that we kept checking the weather forecast for...Cabbage Hill...

And now we are about to go down...

The highway wound around the mountain...going down...down...

...and down...the views were spectacular (too bad it wasn`t sunny out)...

...to the bottom...

Not far after we had reached the bottom, we arrived at our destination...Wildhorse Resort and Casino...

They have an RV Park...

After registering, we got all set up in our sites...

Nice view from our site...that is part of the mountain we just came down...doesn`t look like much from down here...

We had happy hour at our place before heading up to the casino for dinner and a try on the slots...

We walked up to the casino where we had dinner...very good...but of course, we ate too much!  Afterwards we hit the slots...we`ll meet back in front of the restaurant in an hour.  Suzanne and I were the first to arrive at our meeting place...followed by Steve (who was up $25...me...I was down $10)...but where the heck is Dennis?  He must be winning!  Eventually, I went to hunt him down...and sure enough, he was on a lucky machine. 

Steve and I decided that we had had enough of the smoke filled casino...it was terrible!  Through all the casinos we had been in while we were in Laughlin and Las Vegas, we had occassionally noticed a bit of smoke but on the whole, the ventilation systems were great.  Not so here...yuck!  And of course, it was Saturday night...and very busy!  We left Suzanne with Dennis and headed home...fresh air...ahhhh! 

Tonight was our last night with Suzanne and Dennis...we are parting ways tomorrow as they head north and we continue west towards the Portland area.  We don`t need to go into Portland now because we have our new tires, so we will likely bi-pass and head north on the I-5.