Shop Hop and Tolmie State Park

It was another shop hop day with Grandma.  I got up early and went to work.  It was pretty short because the assistants had a training day on the new crown machine.  I got done before noon.  I called Grandma to see if she would bring me something from the store.  She got me some chicken strips and a chocolate maple bar since the maple bars were gone already.

She picked me up and to Shelton we went!  It was a short day so we planned on getting the stores nearby and Tolmie State Park.  When we got to the quilting store in Shelton, the quilt store had moved from the old part of town to the new part of town near the McDonald's, Burger King and Goodwill was.  The ladies inside were pretty excited about their new location.  We were basically the only people in there so we got a demo about the new-ish triangle cutter they called the flying geese.  I learned something new about quilting.

We went back into Thurston county and hit up the Tumwater quilt store.  That was a quick in and out.  One more pile of quilting block materials to add to my bag even though I was posing as my mom for the day.  The next store took us to Bayside, a place I have been to many times throughout the years.  At this place, they had a drawing for a prize every half hour or so.  We got our tickets but didn't win.  Grandma ended up buying something.

We continued on our loop.  We made our way to Tolmie State Park, the next state park on our list.

We drove to the parking lot down the hill and made our way to the trail head. My first time to this park was about two years ago when I visited to get the first set of caches in this park. Not sure if they were in compliance or not. There were a lot of people enjoying the park today but we didn't see anyone on the nearby trail that we took to the cache. The trail was dry, thank goodness, and we didn't have any trouble finding the cache. It was a relief that it was a short walk from the parking lot. After, I took Grandma to the nearby beach.  The tide was out so there really wasn't much to look at.  We went back to the van and drove to the last quilting store in Yelm.

We made our way to Gee Gee's, where once again I posed as mom.  They knew her here so maybe they won't notice?  Haha.  Mom wanted us to wait for her but she took too long and we ended up meeting her at Walmart instead.  Grandma dropped me off in the parking lot and I met up with mom shortly after.  When we got back home my evening ended up being one of the worst days I've had in a long time.  Thankfully it all worked out in the long run.

Next Adventure:  Olympia Cache Machine II with Brenda, Ray and JHolly