Thursday, July 24, 2008
Summer Vacation Part II
The North Carolina crew returned to Seattle for a 13 day visit, which concluded two days ago. We had a jolly good time with them, but we are once again upset with them for ever moving from Seattle in the first place. We will undoubtedly get over the anger soon and just focus on the almost two weeks of fun that we had with them. One of the perks of their visit was that we crisscrossed the greater Seattle area accompanying them often on their goal of seeing the city. Sometimes you forget all of the cool things that are around you, wherever you live, and for the past two weeks we took in many of the sights and sounds of Seattle. The highlight was a three day trip to Mt. Rainier that you see below.
Our friend Lee snapped this shot of Carson on the mountain, it's a great one. I told Lee that this will be one that we have around forever and I meant it. It looks like you could just run right up the mountain from here, but we are at about 5,000 feet and Rainier's peak is a bit of 14,000 feet...so not that close.
A perfect family shot, even if we did have to have Blake in it. As you can see, it was a gorgeous day so it was hard to take a bad picture. Unfortunately, our plan of taking a leisurely hike was squashed when we realized that all of the trails around Paradise were still snowed in from the unusually heavy snowfall this past winter and a cooler spring than normal. So we just played in the snow, which was plenty of fun in itself.
No words needed, these little guys loved every minute of hanging out together. Well, there might be a few words needed, Griffin is really squeezing the heck out of the two little ones.
There are more pics in the flickr account, enjoy 'em. Next stop....Spokane!
The North Carolina crew returned to Seattle for a 13 day visit, which concluded two days ago. We had a jolly good time with them, but we are once again upset with them for ever moving from Seattle in the first place. We will undoubtedly get over the anger soon and just focus on the almost two weeks of fun that we had with them. One of the perks of their visit was that we crisscrossed the greater Seattle area accompanying them often on their goal of seeing the city. Sometimes you forget all of the cool things that are around you, wherever you live, and for the past two weeks we took in many of the sights and sounds of Seattle. The highlight was a three day trip to Mt. Rainier that you see below.
Our friend Lee snapped this shot of Carson on the mountain, it's a great one. I told Lee that this will be one that we have around forever and I meant it. It looks like you could just run right up the mountain from here, but we are at about 5,000 feet and Rainier's peak is a bit of 14,000 feet...so not that close.
A perfect family shot, even if we did have to have Blake in it. As you can see, it was a gorgeous day so it was hard to take a bad picture. Unfortunately, our plan of taking a leisurely hike was squashed when we realized that all of the trails around Paradise were still snowed in from the unusually heavy snowfall this past winter and a cooler spring than normal. So we just played in the snow, which was plenty of fun in itself.
No words needed, these little guys loved every minute of hanging out together. Well, there might be a few words needed, Griffin is really squeezing the heck out of the two little ones.There are more pics in the flickr account, enjoy 'em. Next stop....Spokane!
# posted by Charles @ 4:43 PM 
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