Labor Day Weekend

Nils and I got invited to join the Sundelins from Duvall to go to Port Angeles over labor day weekend. We got there saturday around noon, and met up with them at the Hurrican Ridge for a hike. We hiked for a couple of miles and got to enjoy a pretty view from this national park.

This was the first time Nils and I went on a hike together and after this trip, we are definitety doing it again. Nils decided to wear a white t-shirt, which I thought it was a bad idea since we were going with the kids and I knew that he was going to end up playing around with them. Well, Miss Ella got tired of walking, so Nils offered to give her a piggy back ride, and his shirt... well ... got a little dirty. It was funny to look back and see them talking and talking about who knows what! Of course I snap a couple of pictures of those two:

Beckett had a sweet ride, so he didn't get tired at all, and Liv is such a big girl now, she didn't need help from anybody and walked all the way to the top and back with us. After the hike we went back to our hotels to take showers and changed clothes. Later, we met up for dinner at this very old looking italian restaurant, where the pizza was actually pretty good. The next day, we met up in the morning to have some breakfast, where Liv gave me a picture she draw of me, that made me laugh:
After breakfast, we went to Crescent Lake for a small hike. Nils and I loved this place, the lake was super clean, and the hike was much easier than the one from the day before. It was nice to go away for the weekend and experience this kind of vacation, where all you have around is nature and the people you love. We had such a great time with the Sundelins, and we are so happy they invited us to go with them.

After the hike, they went back home to Duvall, while Nils and I decided to stay one more day. We went to watch a movie that night "Conan" at this very small movie theater. The whole town was very small and it didn't seeing like there was a lot of stuff to do. We walked around downtown, and for some reason all of the stores where close and it felt like we were in a ghost town, because nobody else was around. When Nils and I first arrived in Port Angeles, we were in such a rush to meet up with The Sundelins that we didn't notice that this small town was all about Twilight, in fact our hotel was only a block away from "Bella's Restaurant", and most of the stores had something related to the movie. It was kind of funny how we ended up in a town where Twilight is everywhere, when for the past (who knows how many years) I've been avoiding it. So, at the end I decided to buy the book, and I will read it (one day), but I still refuse to watch the movie. Our last day, we decided to go to Sequim, to a drive through safari and we had so much fun. There were some bears that were in disney movies, and so they did tricks in order to get food, it was pretty cool.
After the safari, we took the ferry back home and picked up our little Charlie. We had so much fun on this trip, and we are so excited to start going and explore nature again.