The dam show
Hunkered down in Grand Coulee. I was out here a few years ago with Jen and she didn't want to stay for the laser show. I was here two years ago and mis-judged the time to drive from Coeur D'Alene and missed it. Tonight I saw it and it was a lot of fun. The technology was showing its age as the display was 100% pure analog and the galvos were a little slow (lots of overshoot) but the show was fun -- historical vignetes interspaced with a free-form light show with a piece of music. They are dumping a lot of water (snow-pack runoff) so the spillway is entirely covered with white water - perfect projection surface. The force of the water coming over the spillway was so strong the bench we sat on was vibrating lightly.
Gorgeous drive out -- had lunch in
Winthrop, a sweet little tourist trap of a town. Dinner at an
excellent Mexican place in Grand Coulee -- probably the best Mexican food I have had in a long long time.
Heading off to Idaho tomorrow and see how far we get -- doing the dam tour tomorrow before heading out.
We will be stopping at the
Cabela's store in Post Falls and I will be showing Lulu the
floating golf green that was designed by a company I used to work for.
Day one!
Posted by DaveH at July 12, 2012 11:04 PM