A Day at the Coast

Our good friends, Jenny and Annie, whom we met at Camp Togowoods, came to visit us for 5 days!! We had a blast showing them around Seattle - we visited the locks, Pike Place Market, Pioneer Square, hiked the Cascades, and ate delicious food! For our final day, we decided to be ambitious and drive all the way to the Pacific coast. We woke early, enjoyed Top Pot doughnuts (yum!!), and then caught the ferry to the Peninsula. It was a beautiful day to spend traveling through the Olympic Peninsula. We made it to the coast after a couple short hikes and it was totally worth the drive. Marcy and I can't wait to go back again this summer for a longer trip - maybe backpacking along the beach!!

Thanks for coming, Jenny and Annie! We had a blast!!

Our view of the Olympic Mountains from the ferry...


On the ferry.


My standard National Park entrance picture...


Cresent Lake - an awesome glacial lake that is really deep and rocky with very little plant life.


Jenny and Annie at Marymere Falls


Marymere Falls - quite small now, but once the snow melts, I'm sure it will be a raging waterfall!


Ahhh, the Pacific Ocean. We were there during high tide - 12 foot waves!!


Hanging out on some driftwood during high tide...

Update

Well, I said I'd be back when the last case of Samoas left the condo, and that day was today!!! We finally have our craft room back - yay! And that means it's time to start making invitations for my brother's and Leann's rehearsal dinner.

Cookie Booth Sales were exhausting, but really successful and fun!! The troop I volunteer with ended up selling over 2000 boxes of cookies! My work troops each sold around 250 boxes of cookies. It was really cold most of the weekends, but some of the stores let us set up inside which was great!!



My 6th grade girls are entering a "Operation Cookie Drop Box Contest." Each troop had a drop box at their booth sale where customers could donate boxes of cookies to soldiers. Troops could enter their drop box into a contest. The winning troop gets a tour of a local news station and a pizza party. The girls designed a drop box like the one dropped from planes to the troops. It would be so fun if they win!! This weekend we deliver our donated cookies to the council, and apparently it's supposed to be a big production. Last year donations filled two semi-trucks! I can't believe it!! Should be cool.



I'm taking Friday off, and I'm really excited - it'll be my first day off in 28 days! I think Marcy and I are going to go skiing. Next week, our two best friends from Camp Togowoods (where we worked in Alaska) are coming to visit for 5 days!! We've got a lot of fun stuff planned, and we're looking forward to spending time with them.