This morning we headed back to Coeur d'Alene to pick up the UPS overnight package with Marla’s passport. It arrived with no issues, so all was well. Meanwhile, Melissa tried to get her Verizon phone replaced as its now burned up two batteries in the past week. This was the usual fiasco where Verizon wants you to send the old phone back within 5 days and they will only ship the new phone to a US address. Not gonna work since we are in Canada for two weeks starting tonight. So the tech support guy promised us a call back the day we plan to be back in the US to arrange shipment of the new phone. Want to lay odds on that all working out as promised?
After we got all that taken care of everything in Coeur d'Alene we headed back to Sandpoint Idaho to take the lake tour we got rained out of yesterday. They served us a nice glass of wine and cheese and crackers and Marla was like "ahhhhhhh".
Lake Pend Oreille is a beautiful recreational lake. There were numerous vacation houses dotting the shoreline:
Unfortunately a couple of storms and one strong microburst took out a whole bunch of trees and damaged some of the houses a few weeks ago:
We did get to see some osprey:
Melissa was working on getting a few portrait pictures along the way, this one capturing her Dad pretty well:
But here is what Dave thought about Melissa's picture snapping:
But eventually she managed to get him anyway:
Last night we found out last night that Saltydog (Steve and Joan) were in Sandpoint Idaho. What are the odds of that? So after the boat tour we met them at their hotel for a drink. Unfortunately we couldn’t stay near as long as we wanted to! But it was great to see them and hopefully they will be in Panama about the time we get there to take Apsaras through.
Then it was off to Canada. We crossed at a tiny crossing called Kingsgate that had only one lane open. Took us about 10 minutes.
Then we were in Canada!
We arrived at our hotel - Alpenglow Bed and Breakfast in Kimberly. The B&B is lovely and we wish we were staying longer!