Vacation Day 7

Today was a driving day. Luckily, though, we got to check out the beach one last time while the tide was out.

Next, we drove from Lincoln City, Oregon, to Sandpoint Idaho. We kept to the Interstate the whole way, and it was fast, but boring compared to the windy, curvy roads we've had on our trip up to now.

When we hit Sandpoint and tried to find a hotel, we found out that there was next to no vacancy because of the Sandpoint Festival that's on right now. We ended up lucking out and hit the Super 8 about 30 seconds before 5 other people, and scored the last room that they had.

This is when we stepped into the twilight zone. The one room they had left was still dirty, so while they cleaned it, we hit Pizza Hut for dinner. This was a CRAZY experience. There were lots of families (obviously), but there was rock music playing really loud, and some crazy lady sitting behind us with her kid that was talking TOO LOUD about how she worked at Pizza Hut, and worked FAR TOO MUCH, but had actually gotten off work 3 hours prior - and she was STILL THERE! Jason and I didn't talk much, just watched the spectacle unfold around us. We couldn't wait to leave.

When we got to the Super 8 room, we found that the toilet in our room wasn't working. Jason walked around to the front desk to talk to them about it, while I waited in the door jamb of our room. I looked to the right, and at the outside door at the end of the hall, it appeared as though a headlight was coming towards me. As it got closer, I realized that it was a headlight, and stepped back into my room as a man drove his Honda Scooter down the hall, around the corner, and into his room. An extreme security measure, if you ask me.

We finally got our toilet fixed and now can go to sleep. Hopefully, we can check out that festival tomorrow.