To scrap it…or not…

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So, if you’ve wondered why I’ve been strangely absent the past few days (ya, right…), I must say I have a great excuse!  I went to Cascade for the weekend!  (For you newbies to the area, it’s about an hour and a half north of Boise in a beautiful mountain setting near Tamarack Resort.) It was gorgeous…blue skies…fresh, crisp air…a beautiful mantle of snow on the ground (that I could leave behind!)…perfect winter mountain weather!  What was I doing to enjoy it?  Skiing? Snow shoeing?  Cross Country Skiing?  Snow mobiling? 

Nothing of the sort! 

Would you believe I stayed inside?  Yep, almost the entire weekend - with a window to my back!  You see, I was on a mission.  For the past 5 years, I’ve wanted to go on this scrap-booking weekend.  (Rolling your eyes yet?)  For one reason or another I could never go.  Until now.

The goal?  To get as much of my youngest child’s 1st year album done as I could.  Would you believe 77 pages later I have only “two weeks” worth of photos left to put in the album?  And a little journaling, too.  Then I’m DONE!  I was absolutely floored.  I weeded through some 400+ photos over a 2 day period.  I was truly amazed!

So, where did we stay?  Well, there were about 45 of us up at the Ashley Inn.  I shared a room with 3 other friends from my church.  It was really a lovely place.  A bit flowery and lacey for my taste, but that’s their theme…Victorian…so it really fit.  About the only complaint I had was that they made really lousy coffee (barely flavored water).  They do however, have coffee pots in the rooms which do make decent coffee, so make it there - or run down the road to Moxie and get a big cup there.  The breakfast spread was impressive - waffles, yogurt, some kind of scrambled egg souffle, cottage cheese, cereal, oatmeal, fruit, and more.  They also have fabulous cookies at 8pm. (they would go really well with a great cup of coffee…)

Would I stay there again?  Definitely if I was splitting the room 4 ways like we did this weekend.  Otherwise, it seemed a bit spendy (our room, for 4 people would normally be $174 we were told - fortunately for us, we had a big group discount which helped).  On the other-hand, it’s nice, well maintained and offers a (rather small) indoor pool, hot tub, and some other amenities in warmer weather.  It would be a very nice place for a conference or wedding reception, and the mountain setting of course is beautiful. 

Want to check it out?  Visit http://www.theashleyinn.com/

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