Once we left Idaho we made our way even further west to Vancouver, WA to stay the night with Tyler’s brother, Stuart, and his family.  On the drive out there we’re flipping through our info on the VPC where we’re going to be storing the van.  Tyler suggests we give them a call just to check in and make sure we’ve got what we need.  Wow, good thing we did!  They tell us we need some form that gives us specific permission to store a vehicle.  Um…..why did no one at Fort Campbell tell us we needed that?  We can’t call back to KY because the office is closed for the day.  WHAT THE HECK MAN!  So I’m panicking, like always, and we decide if worst comes to worst, we can give it to Stuart and Arlee!  Thankfully the  next day we were able to call Post and get what we needed faxed over.  Besides, it would have been a huge headache to try and let Stuart have our car.  Insurance agents are very picky!  Sorry guys, we love you, but no car for you!  Anyway, let’s get back on track here.  We met Stu at  Red Robin :)  We had to get in as much bottomless Steak Fries as humanly possible!

We just headed back to their place and relaxed the rest of the evening.  The next morning we head out to Boring, OR to visit with Tyler’s Grandma and Grandpa Hardy.  Tyler hasn’t seen them in many years, and they’ve never met Evan, so it was such a wonderful trip!  His Grandma had a terrific day planned!  We ate lunch at the house, then they took us to town to see A Christmas Carol.  Jim Carey’s version, it was really cool!!  A little scary for the younger ones (Emma) but very well done.  We came back to the house for dinner with them and Stuart’s family.  Man, we just couldn’t get away from them ;)

We decided to follow Stu and Arlee on the way back to their place.  They take us out to the boonies and then turn into this little parking lot a some weird diner.  Oh boy, little did I know yet what that weird diner really was!  It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Twilight, and so is Arlee.  We ended up making a stop at the Carver Cafe, the diner they filmed a few scenes at!  So dang cool!  They took us to another stop where a lot of outdoor forest scenes were filmed.  It was dark so not very many pictures came out, but it was really neat to stop there and see a few spots!

So after that taste of Hollywood, we got back to the apartment and Stuart starts going on and on about these delicious cookies or something Arlee makes (I’m wracking my brain and I can’t remember what it was that sent Stu and Tyler on a midnight mission to the store for ingredients!)  I remember the were so very good and we had a great time eating, drinking eggnog and staying up extremely late!  The next morning we were off to Seattle to get our van taken care of and check into our hotel near the airport!