Washington with the Hardys

We went to Washington with the Marcus' family for almost two weeks. It was a great trip-- the first few days were spent in Silverdale, Poulsbo, Tacoma, Seattle, and Everett going to the zoo, Boeing, Pike's Place Market, beaches, and more. We had a blast! I have hundreds of more pictures, but I only could post a few (our internet wouldn't last long enough to put up more). These pictures are all from the last week we were up there when we stayed in LaPush. Yes, Twilight fans, LaPush! We also visited Forks, so we do have many pictures of sights from the books.
This is what the beaches look like. They're truly amazing. You have to climb over the driftwood to get to the beach. It's scary and fun. The only weird part is that you have to wear sweatshirts because it gets cold! :)

To get to Second and Third Beach, you have to hike a little, but the pathways were amazing! Gotta love the green forest!

A view with some of the water. We tended to go at low tide because then we could see tide pools with starfish and crabs. At one beach, we saw a seastar with 22 arms-- it's the most feared tidepool predator!

On Marcus' birthday, we had brownies and ice cream. Umpqua ice cream to be exact :) (I had saved all year to get him an iPod Touch, which I gave to him before we left. He needed to put his music on it for the trip :) I wish I had taken pictures-- he was so excited when he opened it!)

The Hoh Rainforest-- it is totally worth the sickening curvy road to visit it!

More Hoh. If you can even see, Marcus decided not to shave while at LaPush... I guess he felt older :)

...but not old enough to skip out on playing on top of sea stacks with his brother Paden. Climbing up was definitely easier than getting back down, if you can imagine.

We enjoyed looking for eagles, dolphins, seals, and any other kind of animals we could see. We also collected rocks and shells (you'll have to come visit to see our treasures), flew kites, read, ...

We had a great time in Washington. Thanks Hardys! Hopefully we'll get to return sometime.