Our trip

To make a long story short, our trip was great! Oregon and Washington are certainly beautiful, and we had a blast seeing the sights. I enjoyed the unusual weather more than Isaac did, with it being warm and sunny and rain-free for so many days in a row. What can I say? I brought the CA sun with me! We drove up to Medford the first day, to the coast and stayed in Ilwaco, WA the second day, spent the third day in Seattle, explored the Olympic Peninsula (& sights mentioned in the Twilight saga) on the fourth day, and went to church and saw historic Port Townsend on Sunday. We saw four temples, a rainforest, many lakes & mountains, crossed a number of bridges, visited a training facility for dogs for the deaf, ate in the rotating restaurant in Seattle's Space Needle, found a plaque dedicated to the fictional Dr. Cullen on the Forks Community Hospital, and found out that you cna't pump your own gas in Oregon, among other things. :) It was a blast. Some pictures for your viewing pleasure; I had a very hard time cutting down to my favorites because we saw SO MANY gorgeous sites, but here are the ones that made the cut...

One More Funny Picture

I was playing with our camera today, trying to figure some things out before we go on our trip, and Sophie was my mostly very patient model. This picture was after I pointed a camera at her for nearly half an hour. I love her face... "Can we stop this now, please?"

In between activities

I wish I could say that I had something very interesting to post, but I don't. I was excited to finish up summer school Thursday; the kids were totally checked out the last two weeks, so it was rough getting them to do anything. Basically I would say the word "write" and the moaning would commence for the remainder of the classtime. It was terribly fun. I especially liked when they tagged a bookcase in Sharpie. Luckily, my Mr. Clean Magic Eraser came to the rescue. In any case, my summer job earned us enough money to take a little trip this month, so in a few days, we are off for Oregon and Washington, two states neither Isaac nor I have ever been to. The stake just got home from YW Camp yesterday, and so the last week, Isaac and I dog-sat Haylie. Sophie was ELATED to have a friend around 24-7. This is a picture of them hugging in between play fights, lol.



Anyway, hopefully we'll have some more exciting stuff to post after our trip. For now, we're just enjoying the two and a half weeks before I go back to work.