Vacation:: Day 2 and 3

For our second day we went North instead of West, up to Mt. St. Helens. It was a great little road trip. However, we were both a little disappointed that we got about 10 minutes of "clear" mountain viewing and the rest was either partially or fully obscured by fog. This made us really sad, but probably not as sad at the people who didn't bother to show up until the afternoon and didn't get to see the mountain at all.

We took our time wandering around the Johnston Ridge Memorial and read up on all the stories of the day. We went into the 'movie' and were not really impressed with the forced emotion. We laughed at the end when, in dramatic fashion, the curtain rose to supposedly show the mountain as it is today... which was supposed to be juxtaposed with the final image of the movie- Mt. St. Helens, pre-eruption. However, when the curtain lifted, it was pure fog bank. Someone joked on the way out that they should have a large photo for days like that.

Back in the parking lot we were noting all the state license plates represented. We saw a family from CA walk out of their car and layer up in sweatshirts and pants. We saw a family from TX crawl out of the car wearing Twilight gear from Forks WA and various others from Vancouver BC, UT, NV, OR, WA and, most suprisingly, ME!

After making it home before rush hour traffic, I bought tickets for She and Him when they come to town. Melissa and I are going to make it an EPIC Ladies Night Out. I can't wait. I'm sooooo happy to see Zooey Deschanel LIVE!

Our Day 3 was very laid back. I was able to have lunch with Shelley G and get a few errands run in the morning. Then I was joking to Steven that we needed to take something out to my parent's house and he said "Now or Someother Time?"... So we decided on 'now'. We packed up our planned pesto dinner and made it for 4 instead of just 2. Delicious!! We were even able to stay for longer than usual because we had no reason to rush home. It was a great spontaneous trip.