Weekend Get-Away

Jon and I took off on a weekend trip to the Seattle area, just the two of us. It was awesome. We hiked, camped, went to a Mariner game, read a book together, and just remembered what it was like to communicate without being interrupted by our little monkey. It was a much needed trip. Loved it!

This hike is from the Olympic Peninsula. I have never been on a hike this beautiful before. The pictures don't even do it justice. So since it's just us on this trip, there are not many pictures of us together but we tried with this one. Yes, I realize my sunglasses look funny. I need some new ones.

The deer were so tame in this area. I couldn't believe how close we could get to this guy without him even caring. He seemed aware of us, but not alarmed. As we were taking this picture, a female deer and a baby came onto the path directly behind us and started feeding, essentially boxing us in. That's when we got a little nervous, especially when the mom was making some weird clicking noise in her throat. We didn't know if it was some deer warning noise or not, so we slowly worked our way out and around them. Anybody speak deer? Still kind of wondering what the clicking noise meant. She didn't seem threatening when she was making it.

One last pic from this hike. So Beautiful! I love the outdoors. I love hiking. I love trees! Sure the ocean is gorgeous, but you put me in the forest and it does something to me. I'm glad I married a guy that feels the same way.

This is us on the biggest spruce tree in the world. Such a tourist picture.



We happened to drive by a sign pointing to the beach and so we decided to take a detour. This particular beach didn't have many seashells, but a ton of sand dollars. The problem with sand dollars is it's easy to find half of a sand dollar, but nearly impossible to find a perfect one still intact. However, we tried and became hooked on the hunt. We combed the beach for quite a ways. What was supposed to be a 30-minute pitstop turned into a 2-hour sand dollar hunt. In the end, we did find a near-perfect one with only a small chip in it (and Isaac better take good care of it, dang it!). It was funny though because we had wandered so far down the beach and the tide was getting higher. About the time we found our near-perfect sand dollar we realized our shoes were not very high up on the beach and may have already made contact with the water. So with our hands and our pockets full of half sand dollars and cool rocks, we had to sprint back to our shoes to save them from the rising tide. I'm sure we looked like quite the sight. It was funny.



Then we did a hike through the Hoh Rain Forest, once again on the Olympic Peninsula. It was really pretty too, but we didn't get to hike for too long before we had to get on the road and head for home.

Oh yeah, somewhere in the mix here we went to a Mariner game- something we always love to do. We had great seats. Too bad the Mariners played like crap.