Discovery Bay with the Family

And thus, summer begins! A couple weeks ago my family drove up from California to visit me in Washington and to go on a week-long vacation in western Washington. I was really excited to see them and they got to see where I am living until December. So fun!

Anyway, so after spending a night and visiting with my aunt Connie and family, we got up "early" on Saturday morning to begin our journey west!

Almost right away when we got to our resort condo place, we made a new friend!





I am convinced that the raccoon was rabid, but my mom nevertheless fed it bread so it kept coming back throughout the week.

A day into our vacation we went to a small island and all the way to the very tip. It was an island that juts out into the Puget Sound. Also an old military base.

In these old bunkers we found a long passageway that was completely dark -- I and a couple others came from one end and the rest from the other and we couldn't see a thing except for when out cameras flashed.


An old light bunker.






Along the route in Port Angeles we found the Tall Ships that would later come to Tacoma for the Fourth of July festival.




And we kept going all the way to the Pacific Ocean. We passed through many Indian reservations and eventually we found a beach the jut quite a way out of the bay. The rocky islands around the inlet were quite beautiful.





























The next day the family and I stayed inland and we gamboled (sometimes literally) around the forest and through hiking paths, past waterfalls, and rivers. It was SO gorgeous and perfect weather. Amazing.









My mom pretended to be a flower bush so that a butterfly could land on it. Weird, eh?


A little restaurant that we got ice cream at (I got a banana split with dark chocolate and old-fashioned vanilla). It sat on Discovery Bay -- very picturesque.


A couple days later (and lots of tennis and movies and video games) our mom set us off on an adventure past the town of Sequim and to a game farm -- basically an open-range zoo with tons of cool animals. We drove through the farm and it was a lot of fun feeding the animals bread (whole wheat, of course).


Crazy-horned rhino!




Hello bear!




Caribou!




Caribou are HUGE!






Here are some pictures around the resort area:




Here are some pictures that Lacy took -- I especially like the ones of our family and our SWEET baby second-cousins!












All in all it was a great week apart from work and it was nice to spend some time with the family! It was time I didn't really get to spend with them before cause they were in school and I was sick almost the whole time! This time we were all healthy and had a bunch of fun sleeping in and playing tennis. Score!