Bray received a “gentleman’s book of etiquette” for his present and he found the reading very informative and a little funny!
Mount Shasta in the distance—our last leg of the trip north before we cross the state border.
We arrived in Oregon on May 30 and parked our RV at The Valley of the Rogue State Park.
The next day was granddaughter, Marissa Martin’s 18th birthday. We drove the car to her Mom and Dad’s where she enjoyed a combination birthday party and graduation party. Yummy food and lots of fun.
All ready for college with her new Apple laptop from Papa Lawrence and Memaw.Sharon.
Graduation tomorrow!
The graduating class of Cascade High School, Medford Oregon and granddaughter Marissa Martin after receiving her diploma. Congratulations!
The next day she and her class left for her senior trip to Magic Mountain in California, where she had made arrangements for her Aunt Laurie to pick her up. After a weeks stay in California, where they spent one weekend at Uncle Ray’s in La Quinta, babysitting during 100 degree plus weather, they were off to Thailand. What a wonderful trip the two of them had. She kept up posted via Facebook of her adventures. She saw tigers, elephants, monkeys, shopped from a boat and bungee jumped. I think they had a lot of fun. Then on to China, where Laurie had some work to do and a side trip to Hong Kong. Singapore and then the long flight home.
While they were having fun a half a world away we were experiencing some more problems with the RV. We had a funny smoky smell in our bedroom that we thought were some campers burning foul smelling fuel in their campfire. As our lights and refrigerator quit working, we figured it was something wrong with us. We had to have a mobile RV truck give our new house batteries a boost to get the RV on the road and to the RV repair shop in Medford 15 miles away. A board in the inverter had caught fire, and burned itself out. Nothing works without the inverter, which we unhooked from the batteries. So off to Jeff and Kirsten’s to spend the night while the RV repair shop ordered a new inverter. While we had the RV there we had them install the new microwave, replacing the one that had burned out in CA. $2100.00 later everything is working again.
We spent 3 weeks in Gold Hill, OR in the “Cypress Grove” campground.
We can only spend 2 weeks in the state park, so we had to move. This is a really cool little campground right off the I-5 freeway. Each summer there are a number of men that come to pan gold out of the Rogue River. It is so interesting to talk to them and all of them are so friendly. So are the managers of the park. We always enjoy our stay there. We get to visit with family, old friends and have fun.
One evening we met with friends, Debbie, Patrick and their girls. Brianna just graduated from North Medford High and was their Valedictorian. There were 21 Valedictorians, but she was the highest and gave the speech. She is a ardent fan of Harry Potter and told me she was headed to Portland to play in a Quiddich Tournament. How fun. Sister, Micaela is headed for perfect grades in High School also. Good job, Debbie and Patrick!
Debbie, Micaela and Brianna LeVesque
