The Saturday before Spring Break, we loaded in the car and set out on a 16-hour drive to Washington to visit my Dad’s Grandpa. We drove and drove and drove some more. We had to get fast food for lunch, and let’s just say I was ready for some home made food for dinner. And I got it! Uncle Mark and his friend Oscar live in Oregon so we got to go to their apartment and then to the park for dinner. We had grilled chicken, mixed veggies, and cookies for dessert. It was delicious! Afterwards we got to play in the park. They had a bunch of seesaws, and Neil and Isaac thought they were so fun!
While we were in Washington, we got to go to the ocean. When we went to the sandy beach, we were wading in the water when Mark found a Sunflower Starfish. The only reason I knew what it was was because I’ve watched a Planet Earth nature show on it. It was pink on the top and bright orange and purple on the bottom. It was about the size of a dinner plate. We would have taken a picture of it, but we were way out on the beach, and the sand was so muddy that our shoes got stuck sometimes, so Dad stayed up at the top of the beach with the camera. While we were there, Mark also found a really cool crab.
We also got to go over to Seattle by ferry. It was really fun to go out on the back deck and see all the waves it was making.
We also went to the rocky beach and chucked rocks in the water. Well, the other kids did. I still had my flip-flops in the car trunk from going to the sandy beach a few days earlier, so I put them on and went looking for shells. Man, the ocean is cold in April!! Really cold!! After a while your feet get numb, and then it is a whole lot easier.
Fresh crab. Delicious!
Along with going to the beach and riding on the ferry, we also got to go to the temple and have an Easter egg hunt with Uncle Paul and Aunt Chris’s family. It was so much fun! I’m glad we got to go.
Have a great week, I’ll post again next Sunday.
