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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Deception Pass, Cape Flattery and Westport trip!

Well Here I am again. It has been a few years now!! As a family we have recently been trying to find new places to visit. Gabe and I wanted to make a travel book of all the places, but I decided that I would try to add it to our blog. That way it will be easy for us to access it, and it is a way to share with you what our family is doing or if you need vacation ideas! Now that the summer is over, you may not see a post again any time soon!






Below is a map of where we traveled when we went for a vacation on August 25 2011. (Yes, it has taken a couple of weeks to finish this post!) We started off from our home in Issaquah and made a big loop that took us back home three days latter. On the Map A and E is representing our home and B, C, and D are the places that we spent the night.












We first drove up north to Deception Pass. You can take the Mukilteo/Clinton Ferry which we actually tried doing but after seeing the long ferry wait time, we got back on I-5 and went up and around the other way. We Camped out at Deception Pass state park at Bowman Bay. Below is a map of our campsite and notes of which sites we liked the best. There is also a map of Cranberry lake campsite which we didn't have time to explore.











We arrived at the camp ground a little later than we thought. After setting up our tent we took the Kayak in bowman bay. We brought our crabbing equipment along and Gabe dropped the crab pot a few times. We didn't have any luck, but we should have used some different bait and maybe that would have been better. We then went back and roasted hot dogs and had somores for a treat. Cade and Ethan now that they are a little older really enjoy cooking over the fire, especially the marshmallows! We then settled down for the night.



Helping to set up the tent





View of Bowman Bay from our camp site

First the kids had a turn on the kayak!!


Asher's turn!




Gabriel with a crabbing pot looking for dinner!








Kristy on the Kayak, enjoying the splendid view!






In the morning, we decided rather than going home that day, which is what we planed to do that we would continue our trip since Gabe had the time off work and in two days we were planning another trip anyways. So we knew we had a bit of driving ahead of us, so we didn't spend a lot of time at deception pass. We did go out on the dock where more people were crabbing. If we had time and if Gabe hadn't forgot his crabbing license we would have tried crabbing off the dock at bowman bay. But instead we packed up and headed out. We drove south through Oak Harbor and went to Coupeville to get on the Port Townsend Ferry. This ferry is smaller so they actually suggest to make reservations for it.




The boys on the ferry






Asher may have liked the ferry the best!




So we really wanted to go and see Cape Flattery which is near Neah bay. Cape Flattery is the northwesternmost point of the contiguous United States. It was a bit of a drive but we had seen other parts of the Olympic Peninsula before and this was something we hadn't seen before. So we took the drive and made reservations at a camp ground, called Hobuck Beach Resort. We drove past the campground and it was better then we were expecting. As long as it isn't too busy then it would be a nice place to camp that is right near the beach. But I guess we were up for an adventure, or so we thought! We had been told because it is on an Indian reservation that we could camp out anywhere off of hwy 112, which goes right along the ocean. So after checking out the campground we went back the other way and found a place to pull off the side of the road and camped right on the beach. We drove around ??? miles east on hwy 112 before reaching the spot where we stayed.






So this was our campsite! Without telling the long story, I'll just say that Gabe and I didn't sleep too well until after 12:30 a.m. which is was the time of the high tide. Up until then we were worried about being swept away in the ocean! Ok, not really swept away but the high tide did come up a lot further than we thought it would. It was probably only about 15 feet away before it started going back down! It was also a little hard to sleep because we were just out here all by ourselves on a public beach and there was an Indian celebration going on in the town of Neah bay, so we didn't know who would show up latter wanting to continue their partying! But it turned out to be a quite night.



In the morning Cade and Ethan wanted to play pirates. The log that we are standing on was our ship!




This was one of the view points of Cape Flattery. The hike is about 3/4 of a mile each way. There were about 5 or 7 different view points and they were all really pretty.









So part of the walk was too bumpy for the stroller, So Gabe carried Asher like this part of the time, and he seamed to have liked it!


Here is Gabe at what we believe was the northwesternmost point of the contiguous United States.



This Island in the distance is called Tatoosh, which has Cape Flattery's light house on it. After telling a friend of mine where we went she let be borrow a fictional book that her son read in school, and it takes place on Tatoosh Island. It is called "Ghost Canoe" by Will Hobbs It has been fun to read after going there.



After we finished our hike to Cape Flattery, we headed south, all the way to Westport WA. We had reservations at a Hotel, which name is not worth mentioning because we would not stay there again. But we still had a fun trip!






This is Westport's light house, which is the tallest lighthouse in WA. Although it didn't seam that big to us



This is the dock where we went crabbing at. We caught a lot of crabs but none were big enough to take home.



Before we left, we checked out this campground in Westport, and we would for sure camp here if we go back. A lot of the sites are pretty private (as private as it gets for car camping) and we marked some of our favorites on the map below.



So we mostly had hotdogs and peanut butter sandwiches on our trip but we did order a pizza from this place, in fact we got one for dinner and then we got one for lunch before our trip home the next day. It was excelent. We really liked the Greek Goddess pizza that had feta cheese!





Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter

Well it has been a while since I posted. We are all doing really good. The boys are growing more and more. Ethan is learning new words, loves to be outside, and likes to do what ever his brother is doing. Cades imagination is growing more and more, he loves the movie chitty chitty bang bang, and loves to sleep in mom and dad's bed. They both really like to read books, we like going to story time at the library, and playing outside and planting flowers. Although a squirell keeps taking all of our bulbs that we planted!


Sorry for the view(the crack!), but I thought this picture was so cute. Ethan likes to smell flowers and this is how he smells them when they are really close to the ground. The next picture Ethan is also smelling a flower and you can't see it but a flower is in his hands.
With the really nice weather the boys enjoyed having several easter egg hunts during the week!
I thought it was cute how they both held their baskets around their arm!



















So I wanted to try something new, it didn't turn out excatly how I imagined it but it was still fun. The boys and I grew wheat grass in their easter baskets.









I got this suit for him last year and it still fit!























Sunday, February 22, 2009

Pictures

Here are some pictures from the last few months. They are not in any order. Just last week some of Gabriel's family came in town and this is Ashlyn taking Cade down the slide.



Here is Cade and Ian making cookies with Gabriel.

This is inside our home, you can see our nice fireplace which we use as our main source of heat.




Is this cute or what!





The first picture was the one bellow. Ethan got in the box first and then Cade thought it was a good idea!





These next pictures were taken at a fun park that is close to our house. The boys love going to parks and we enjoy finding new ones to go to. As you can see from the pictures they have some fun things at this park.
















Gabriel and I went skiing a while ago and this is a picture of the mountain!












Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Christmas 2008

This is Christmas morning at our home.
I made these stockings for the boys.











Christmas afternoon we went over to Gabriel's parents house. Gabriel, the kids and I all made snowmans that afternoon. If you can see there are also two small snowmans in the middle.