Our Christmas Vacation!

Dec 22 - Jan 3....Yes I know, it's pass time for an update! We had a wonderful Christmas and New Years with family. We didn't have a 'white' Christmas - there was some snow on the ground when we arrived in Great Falls, MT but it melted quickly. The weather was above freezing the whole trip! We really enjoyed visiting with Dixie's family in Montana and had some fantastic meals & good times. We went out to the 'farm' on the 26th for 2 days and then back to Great Falls where we were scheduled to fly to Seattle on the 29th......Well 3 days later we still hadn't made it on a flight (we were at the airport each day at 545am). On Saturday the flight canceled and we decided if we were ever going to get out of Great Falls we better rent a car and drive to Seattle. So at 650am on Sat. we started our drive to the lovely 'rainy' city of Seattle. The tempature was in the 40's when we left Great Falls but 60 miles later we ran into snow, sleet and rain. The roads were snowy & slushy until we reached Idaho (pretty slow going). From there we had some sun, rain and... snow again at the pass in Washington. At 45opm we reach our daughters in North Bend - from there we continued our drive to Seattle to drop off the car! At 730p we were finally at our destination. It was worth the trip as we were able to spend a couple of days with Micheala, Tim & the grandkids! We flew from SEA to Palm Springs on the 2nd where we spent the night at Dixie's brothers. Finally today (the 3rd) we got our motorhome out of storage and parked once again at Desert Pools RV Park in Desert Hot Springs. We welcomed the warm weather again by storing our coats! Even though it wasn't that cold in Montana and Washington we are glad to be back in warmer weather. We will stay in this park until Sunday when we will move to Twenty Nine Palms, a bit further north, near Joshua Tree National Forest (it's time to do some hiking and work off what we gained while on vacation)!