Back in the winter of '09, Jono and I started daydreaming about taking a trip somewhere beautiful this summer. With another baby on the way we knew it would be a while before we'd be able to escape on a getaway together. So we started scheming and talking to my parents about caring for G for a week while we went on vacation. We also enlisted our awesome friends, the Brewers, to join us. These fantastic folks have journeyed far and wide to hang with us, including a fun-filled trek all the way to Spain!
I have loads of pictures, so I'll have to devote a couple of posts to this trip. We spent a total of 8 days in Washington. We arrived in Seattle, spent the night downtown, then took a ferry over to the Olympic Peninsula, where we had a rental house on the coast and spent the majority of our time. We went on some gorgeous hikes, cooked yummy food, and enjoyed ourselves to the max. Never having spent the night away from G, one of my favorite parts of this vacation was sleeping and showering whenever I wanted and for as long as my heart (and body) desired.
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| Walking the streets of Seattle |
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| On the ferry to the Olympic Peninsula |
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| OCD or nesting? When we got to our rental house I started cleaning the windows. |
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| Pretty bird. I took this picture, and the local artists (Jono and Mary) highly approved of it. |
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| The Olympic Range |
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| This was the view at the end of our first hike. It was about 3.5 miles uphill (7 miles total) to get to this frozen lake. I'm pretty sure I couldn't do this now at my present phase of pregnancy. |
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| Tired, but happy, hikers |
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| The view from the back of our rental house |
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| We were about as relaxed as we've been in 1.5 years! |
