Tripometer – 7460 mi
Gas Gauge – 572.922 gal
Location – Snoqualmie Casino, Snoqualmie, WA
Lodging – FREE
Cans of OFF – 4
We woke up this morning to an ice cold rain absolutely pouring down. What a miserable day to have to pack up and move. While Kelly worked, Paul procrastinated the inevitable as long as humanly possible. We packed up the trailer wetter than at any point during this trip. There were buckets of water pooled in the tents when they got closed up. This thing may never get dry.
We drove into Monroe because we absolutely had to visit Sam at her tattoo shop, The Inkblot Collective, where she was finishing up a fairly large arm piece on a regular. Not to get in her hair we went and ate with Chris at a little Thai place around the corner. A few errands in town and we were off to the Snoqualmie Casino about an hour south. We arrived with plenty of time before dinner so Kelly did a bit more work before we ate. While she worked, Paul opened up the trailer with the intention of drying things out a bit. His suspicions of entrapping gallons of water in the tents when we packed up were correct and he managed to drench himself opening them up for the evening. We went with a more compact sleeping arrangement this evening to save time on set-up and take-down. We left the truck attached to the trailer and didn’t lower Paul’s bunk. He slept on the dinette.
When Sam & Chris joined us at the casino we proceeded to have an amazing all-you-can-eat King Crab dinner at the Falls Buffet inside. We were very impressed. The Casino didn’t pull any of the classic tricks to get you to eat less of the expensive food, the quality of the crab was excellent, and the price was reasonable.
It was fantastic to spend so much quality time with Chris and Sam. We really enjoyed our visit. We went to sleep tonight with very full bellies in a very wet trailer.