Sunday morning we got up at 10am, I’d brought cereal with me and we’d bought milk (great way to cut cost if your hotel doesn’t provide free breakfast!) and we ate breakfast before we checked out of hotel no.1.

The drive to Bellingham was gorgeous, so much to see and take pictures of – which, I quickly learned, was difficult while moving at 60 (+) mph!

When we got to Bellingham, we checked in early at the Holiday Inn Express (hotel count:2).  Then, I consulted my trusty Entertainment guide (that I’d bought in Lynnwood the previous day), picked a little gastro pub for us to eat at for lunch, plugged the address in to Lucy, hit ‘go’ and got there to discover a boarded up building.  Wonderful!

Attempt no.2 yielded more fruit – I picked another little pub, the Village Inn pub and Brewery which was in a little town and off the beaten track.

As it turned out, we both enjoyed a really nice lunch (not to mention with our buy 1 get 1 free coupon, a really cheap lunch!).

The place was as close to authentic as I think we’ve seen in the US, it was filled with people who all knew each other and had sports on the TV, pool tables if you wanted to play and Abba on the juke box (which made Col a happy chappy!).

After lunch, we decided to drive to the venue and scout out some parking, to see if we could get any for cheap/free ahead of the throngs of people who were flocking to the Mt Baker theatre to see Mr Brian Regan.

When we got there, we had just over an hour to kill, so we figured we’d take a dander around the town, happen upon a coffee shop and enjoy an hour chilling out before the show.  Ha! How simple it sounds!

We walked around for about 25 minutes in the freezing cold and discovered that Bellingham doesn’t stay open past 5pm!  Everywhere was shut! We eventually found a little coffee shop that was open and set up camp with a cuppa.

Both Regan and his warm up/MC were hilarious!  If I’m honest, I was a little wary about the show – my sense of humour doesn’t always coincide with Col’s, however, Col wanted to see Regan and I’d agreed (since it was his birthday and all) and I’m so glad we went.  It was really great fun and we both enjoyed a really good laugh.

After the show, we tried to find somewhere to eat, only to discover that it wasn’t only Bellingham that closed early, Lynnwood did too – no where was open to get dinner! We resorted to using another coupon from the Entertainment guide, getting a grilled chicken sandwich each in Arbys (which wasn’t as bad as it sounds, it was just disappointing that we couldn’t find somewhere to eat!) and taking it back to our hotel room.

How boring!