Family & Friends in WA

We have stayed longer in western WA than planned but has been wonderful getting to spend more time with our kids and meet up with friends from other places right here!

View from our "home"

Lots of great healthy finds around the LITTLE town of Edison. Good cheese from the farm, fresh healthy homemade bread and locally distilled bourbon!  Oh yeah, local craft beer!  Good day!!!!! 

Dan & Sabin (our son-in-law) getting the BIG dish working

Hangin' out with the kids

Kayaking on the Sound

Hiking in Whidbey Island

Fairhaven, WA with old friends and Christi

We had a real treat when we saw 4 bald eagles at our campground.  They even hung out long enough for me to go back and get the camera! 

Took a side trip to Olympia to see yet another state capitol.  it was beautiful but we have seen ones we liked better.

Elected officials

Looking over the Sound from downtown Olympia

 It's never better than being with friends we've met along the way.  Meeting up with Betty (where we stay and Dan plays all the music, etc) was a very special treat.  She was on a bus trip that stopped in Seattle.  We can't wait to go back and stay at her place this winter.   

Pikes Market in Seattle, the home of the famous flying fish

 We took a trip up to Mt Rainer where we got to see the mountain for the first time up close.  It has always been cloudy and fogged in. 

This is the White River.....bet you can't guess why it's named that. LOL  It is white from the grinding of the rocks in the glaciers.  They call it Glacier flour.

Snookum Falls

It is one awesome mountain.

How quickly the weather can change on the mountain.

Notice the clouds coming in over the mountain

 One of many mountain lakes

Sunrise Lodge

Playing in the snow in July

WE all know how bad Dan is at Directions.  

Had a wonderful evening with more friends we met up with near Seattle that we had met at Betty's 

Happy Hour at Christi's.....wonderful....sunshine and all.

AND right before going to press our grandson Thomas bought himself a new ride!!!  Grandpa is jealous and is trying to spend all of his money making it reeeally hot!