Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Mt. St. Helens Lava Tubes

Last weekend Zelda, Rosie, Tommy and I went to Mt. St. Helens to climb through the Ape Cave lava tube and to run around in the sun. We left on Saturday afternoon so we could beat the crowds at the lava tubes. We camped on the side of the road in the National Forest and then in the morning I ran up a quarter mile to the base camp for people who are summiting St. Helens. We ate breakfast, went to the lava tubes and climbed through only meeting a few people along the way but when we came out the parking lot was packed, it seems like everyone was just behind us. After that we split a watermelon, went on walk through a lava forest and then found a lake to swim in. I climbed on a log and paddled it pretty far into the lake. Coming home we got stuck in traffic but it was still great. Here's some pictures:


The view of the top of St. Helens, and everyone eating breakfast.


In the cave!


Coming out of the cave.


Afterwards at the lake.

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Bone House Pix


Bone House living room and Tommy learning to fix a flat tire.


Emily giving Eric a haircut and Eric in his Geo.


Last weekend Emily and I went to Discovery Park and sat on the beach waiting for the sun to come out from behind a cloud. It was nice even though the sun stayed behind the cloud. It was clear so you could see Mt. Rainer, it's in the background in this picture.


We have this cool balcony, here's Brandon, Bean, Eric, Emily and Tommy doing their Beatles impression. A long time ago Emily started to make a Settlers of Catan game and Becca, Eric, Rosie, Tommy and I finished it over the weekend. This picture is of the end of our first game. I think we need to make a few more land tiles but other than that it's great.

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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Friday Night Hike

Yesterday Eric, Jen, Scott and I went to go visit Marcus in North Bend for his birthday. It was my first time going out of Seattle except for one short trip to Belleview. We got there late but we still did a short hike up Little Si. It was my first time hiking in sandals and it felt really different but good. The muscles in my feet got a real workout. At the top of the mountain I yelled 'Happy birthday Bon' and I think she heard it because we were so high up. I have lots of pictures to put up from the end of the house but I haven't had time to do it yet. Maybe soon!

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Friday, July 1, 2011

Bone House

Goodbye Yellow House! It was a lot of work getting it all out but we did it and now we're at the new house! It's at 75th and 9th so it's a little shorter ride to work and it's on a nice weird block across from a weird maybe abandoned industrial building. It's weird to see all the same stuff in a new house.

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