Just a Little Bit!

Last night, we were heading for Moses Lake, WA but we made it as far as Cle Elum, WA, at just about 9:30 when we had a blow out of the second of the two new tires we bought in February for the Tow Dolly. What a waste of time these tires were. I'll tell you the brand and the guys who sold them to me in another post so you'll never go there.
We fortunately were able to get immediately off the freeway with no damage to the rim, the dolly or the car. And as we pulled off, we pulled almost directly across the street into a Safeway Supermarket parking lot. While I was on the phone with AAA and Les Schwab tire company trying to arrange for mobile tire service, which neither group was able to help us set up, Meg went into the supermarket to ask the manager if we could stay in the parking lot overnight. He was real nice and told us of course. So, we looked around and found the best camping spot to be adjacent to a fifth wheel who had already set up camp in the parking lot as well.
Except for a little teenage party noise in the parking lot around 10 -10:30 all as fine and we slept pretty well after they left. I was up at 3 AM just because - I was sleeping in a parking lot but went back and got up again at 7 AM when I heard our camping neighbors get up, start up the diesel and pull out. I jumped up, went out, pulled the rim and mangled tire off the dolly and ran downtown to find someone to help us out.
I ended up at Willet's Shell station (instead of 20 miles away in Ellensberg at Les Schwab) and was the only one there, except for Dave, the guy running the place. It just so happened that he had two of the tires in the size I needed and also another rim that was the right one for our dolly too. I asked him to put one new tire on my existing rim and to mount the other new tire on the new rim.
I finally after all these miles bought a spare to carry with us for the duration of the time we use the dolly. Seems like it makes sense to have a spare. I am good at thinking ahead like that. Meg tells me that it is now our insurance policy. We will never have another flat on the dolly now that we have the spare. Sort of like buying a snow blower in the middle of a winter storm. It won't snow for the rest of the winter.
All set by 8AM we started out again and drove 400 miles today. All the way through Washington, through the pan handle of Idaho and landed in Missoula, Montana.
On the way through Moses Lake, WA we stopped to take the kids to the city operated water park. This was the only day they have had rain in 1000 years in August and since no one was at the park at 11 AM when they were to open (we didn't get there till 12) they closed it up and sent the workers home for the day. Son of a B..... if we didn't just tell the kids what we were doing just before we pulled into town, just to get them psyched for the event. BOOM - down we go. We saved the day by going bowling in town and the kids had a ball. A few of them actually!
The only other thing to do was to go hang out at Walmart for fun. And....... we did that yesterday.