Olympic Club

I realized I didn't post my pictures from the Spring Flinger letterboxing gathering. I went up Friday night with my friends Melanie & Dave (known to the letterboxing community as Maiden1974 and Tarnished Knight). We had a get-together dinner in the evening on Friday, the gathering on Saturday, another get-together dinner Saturday night, and went home in the early part of Sunday.

We stayed at the Olympic Hotel in Chehalis. It's a neat old building with quite a lot of interesting history behind it. I guess it has been a bar and a brothel, and is now a Euopean-style hotel with 26 guest rooms. They are tiny rooms, each named after a famous, or infamous as the case may be, person that had something to do with the hotel. My friend Elizabeth (also know as gerlfren to her uber-special letterboxing buddies) and I stayed in the Nugent Room. These gentleman were known for not quite following the law around Chehalis, and got in a spot of trouble over it.


So here's the room. Tiny, huh? And yes, European Style means you share the bathroom. Oh, and guess who got the top bunk? Um, yeah. I'm not exactly built to be climbing up bunk beds these days. The hotel does have rooms with Queen sized beds. I'll take one of those next time!



Here are the Nugent brothers. It was just a bit weird to have these two guys staring at us all night. I forgot to grab the sheet of paper that told their story, so I can't tell you what it was.


I tried to capture the story that was painted on the walls, but didn't quite manage it.



This was my bed. Note the lack of a pillow case.



More of the story.


I didn't take any good pictures at the gathering. I was too busy letterboxing! Here is one of the sign, followed by one of the clover.




And that's the end of my picture travel log of the gathering. I know my friend Leslie (known as Miniles in letterboxing circles) took a bunch of pictures and posted them on one of the letterboxing sites. I'll see if I can go snag some.

Okay, now I've posted more today than I have in the past month. Enjoy!