We started out our vacation on Lake Coeur d'Alene with a little stress. After a seven hour drive in up to 100 degree temps, we missed the last turn and ended up down a steep, newly graveled driveway. Got the camper turned around okay, but then our van could not get enough traction to pull us up the hill! Thank goodness Dean and Jude have a Jeep Wrangler and could get us unstuck! We then had two beautifully hot days on the lake. The kids and I had some fun tubing trips! At the end of our second full day, it began to get hazy on the north end of the lake. We thought that maybe they were burning fields, but no smoke smell. Dean calls his brother and gets the information on a large thunderstorm heading our way. The haze was actually dust stirred up by winds on the Palouse. We secured everything....and watched the storm blow in! Wind gusts up to 50 mph, lightning, rain...in the form of mud from the dust in the air. Cool to watch! Unfortunately, behind this storm was a rainy, cool front, for our last few days. Our lake fun was done :-( We read, played Nintendos and Apples to Apples. We did go into Coeur d'Alene (an hour away) and walk around a little. On our last night we had already purchased tickets to go see Les Miserables. As we headed home on Thursday, we drove through another huge storm on I-90 in Idaho. Umm, can I have a vacation "do-over?"
the dusty haze
from 100+ temps on the drive over, to 45 degrees on the way home.....
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