Labor Day in Centralia

Everyone in the USA is celebrating Labor Day - even us in our own quiet way... the coast was manic to say the least - think bank holiday times 10 and then some... there was no camping to be had and no reasonably priced motel anywhere down the coast so we were forced to move inland to the the grand metropolis of Centralia...

At first impression it was a bit grim... but it was the nearest affordable motel and we needed to know we could sleep somewhere!!! We bedded down for the night eating microwave meals and watching crap american TV - quite a luxury to be honest, hot water - comfy bed - today we got up and did a supermarket shop in prep for hitting the wilderness again for the last few days - Everyone and their granny who didn't make the coast was in Walmart!!! Then we headed downtown Centralia for coffee and cakes to be pleasantly surprised at the old town main street. Lovely theatre, old playhouse - fabulous bar, rather too many 'antique' shops but really very picturesque compared with out of town horrendous uniform shopping malls...

It wasn't busy... I guess a lot of people are out of town on the coast - but it suited us and we found a coffee and sat and people watched and then wandered around the junk shops which had quite a few things I would have bought if I could carry them home...

That was the highlight of the day, we went for a walk by the river - nice fungus on a tree but the park itself was a bit seedy and run down.. so we didn't stay long.

The mouse continues to elude us!!!! Our plan to starve it out has backfired as we first left chocolate in the glove compartment and wet wipes which it ate, and then forgot the tortillas which have sustained it yet another day!!!!

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