Yes, I know the calendar says October, and it’s fall. 

We spent an awesome weekend at Rainbow Falls State Park. 

Location is exit 77 from I-5 and drive 16 miles west on Hwy 6 towards Pe Ell and Raymond.  This is a wonderful campground for fall camping. 

 

Friday night there was us, one tent camper, and one hunter that only comes and goes at night.  So basically we had the park to our selves.  The tent campers left early Saturday morning, and the boy scouts rolled in!  They took up 3 campsite on the other side of the campground from us.  Then two more RVs came in.  With 47 available campsites, this still left lots of room to roam in the quite falling leaves of this beautiful forest.  We called home site 43 (and full utilities!) 

Saturday morning we didn’t get an early start, and it felt so good to sleep in.  And it was easy because we couldn’t get the heater working and it was darn cold outside of the covers.  So what to do first on a beautiful cold fall morning… how about spring a leak!  Yes, that’s right, we sprang a leak while I was doing the breakfast dishes I noticed water on the floor.  Not a lot, but it was not something you want to ignore.  So hubby gets the flashlight and goes in for some real up-close viewing under our tiny little sink. 

 

He discovered that the ring had a crack where it hooks up to the other little pipe thing.  So next stop was Home Depot back out on I-5.  Which the nice man there told us that our next stop would be the RV place down the road at exit 72.  And the nice man there told us that our next stop would be Ace Hardware in Napavine!  If you are ever in Napavine, WA and you have a need to go to Ace Hardware go to the back of the store and look at the cute little dog they keep in the shop/office area!  How do I know about this cute little dog.  Well the super nice man at Ace helped us build the piece we needed and cut it to size and glued it all together.  They scored a perfect 10 for friendly and helpfulness in my book.  Then we were back to the campground to resume camping in the leaves. 

 

View to the right of our campsite!

We walked around the campground and lazily hung out in the camper for lunch and figured out what was wrong with the heater.  Yeah heat is a good thing!  We got a wonderful large fire going for the evening and sat out side by the fire pit, very close to the fire pit!  Until dark and then it was in for the night. 

 

The dogs were all tuckered out and couldn’t wait for bed. 

What a difference a night with heat makes.  I woke up only about a dozen times, instead of the 2 or 3 dozen the night before.  I don’t know why I can’t get a good nights sleep in the camper.  We are going to try buying one of those egg-crate mattress things and maybe that will help.  Also it got too warm during the night and I got up 4 times to turn down the heat. 

In the morning we woke to frost on our propane tank.  The sky was blue and the fog was here and there, and it was cold!!   After a slow take down and pack up we were on the road by 10:35 am… and the temperature was 34 degrees!!! 

So we say Good-Bye to Rainbow Falls and a very nice fall weekend!