Getting Ready to Go

It's time to hit the road again. We've had a wonderful time this week. After our trip to San Francisco on Wednesday, we spent the day relaxing Thursday. Friday Theresa and I flew to Seattle for our nephew Ryan's wedding.

We got to Seattle about 3, and headed to our bed and breakfast. It was a nice place. We had our own separate area in the house with our own entrance and even our own kitchen. We had a nice view of Puget Sound from the window. Since we hadn't gotten lunch, we went out for an early dinner to a seafood place just down the road. The food was outstanding!

We did some sightseeing around Seattle after supper. We walked through Pikes Place market, then saw the Seattle Center and the Space Needle. Since you have to spend $16 per person to go up the Space Needele, we stayed on the ground. Seems like a bit of a ripoff to me!

Saturday we went to the wedding. It was a lot of fun seeing everyone in the middle of our vacation, and both the ceremony and reception were neat. When we left we had a plenty of time to get back to the airport. The flight home was delayed by a little over an hour, and it ended up being after midnight when we finally got back to Jeff and Heidi's house.

Sunday morning after church we packed up a big picnic and went to the beach at Santa Cruz. The weather was just about perfect. It was sunny and clear but not too hot. We went swimming and explored the tide pools. We found starfish, crabs, snails, mussels, and anenomes.

We left the beach a little after five and went to a state park between Santa Cruz and San Jose. This park is in the redwood forest. We took a mile long hike through the redwood gtrove, seeing many of the huge trees. We also saw several deer. It was a great time, but we were pretty much exhausted by the time we got back.

This morninng we're packing up our stuff and getting ready to go. We'll be on the road for about 6-7 hours today, ending in Ashland, Oregon. Tuesday we're going to Crater Lake, then heading on to Portland. We won't have internet access until Wednesday, when we'll be camping in Idaho. I'll post an update then.