Vacation

We went camping near here:

Mt. Rainier.

We stayed in La Wis Wis campground.

If you sat in our campsite this it what you'd see:

So much green!

The weather channel gave us the idea the weather would be rainy and cold.

But this is what we got:

Mostly sunny. Temperatures in the 50's-70's

I was still chilly, Joseph was just right... most of the time.

We went into Mt. Rainier National Forest to hike.

We stopped and saw this:

Sunbeam creek.

We were heading to the Grove of the Patriarchs

It is an easy hike, about 1.1 miles round trip.

You hike down a dirt trail

That had a couple enormous trees that had fallen over the trail

Luckily Joseph is a muscle man, and lifted it for us to cross.

After the trail you come to a suspension bridge,

Only one person can cross at a time.

Here's Joseph at the end.

After you cross the bridge you are in the Grove,

the trees in there are thousands of years old and HUGE.

When we were done hiking we had our sack lunches, 

and drove to Paradise,

No, really that's the name of the city.

It's the city at the base of Mt Rainier.

And Mt. Rainier got a little shy when we got there.

Seriously, I have a picture and the mountain is completely behind the fog.

This picture was taken on our way back from Paradise.

We also got some great Views of the Tatoosh Mountians.

They weren't so shy.

And here I am back at our campsite.

Don't judge, I was camping, and cold.

 And it's a self portrait.

We had a wonderful weekend, 

Loved the fresh mountain air.

We had lots of quiet time together.

It was our first real camping trip, alone.

And pretty amazing for a quick trip on a budget.

We're ready to face the world once more.