There’s a Ladybug on my sock, originally uploaded by CraftyMoni.
I didn’t get this up yesterday but here it is today. I had a visitor helping me while I was taking pictures of my finished sock :).
Hope you all have a great weekend! I’m look at three days off. ahhh.
raindrops, originally uploaded by CraftyMoni.
I kind of forgot to post all week! It’s been rather eventful.
1. I got introduced to Plurk and my time has been sucked into a sinkhole. Seriously though, it is fun. Please come and friend me if you are already there. It’s a riot. Someone described it as “Instant Messaging on steroids” and I would have to agree.
2. Raf bought me Guitar Hero III for our anniversary present. It is sooo fun. I am kind of kicking ass on it right now, too. Of course I’m in easy mode. But still. It feels good to kick ass at something.
3. It snowed! I think it was Tuesday morning..I woke up in the middle of the night shivering and thinking I had the chills from a fever or something. Actually, the temperature dropped down to the 30s. It was 34 degrees outside when I woke up! In June! Then as I was getting ready for work I looked outside and saw that it was snowing. I couldn’t believe it. Never in my life have I seen snow in June. That is unacceptable.
4. We had a crazy storm this week, too. Besides the snow. When I got off work it was nice and sunny. I came home and was playing Guitar Hero when I heard this weird noise. Something was hitting our roof. I looked outside and saw there there was hail the size of Marbles raining down on us! It was insane. It tore gigantic holes in my hosta plants.
That’s all for now. Have a happy weekend, everyone!
Our original plan was to camp at Mt. Hood. However, we knew it was going to rain so we searched around for parks in Washington and Oregon with cabins or yurts. We decided on Wallace Falls State Park in the North Cascades near Mt. Baker. I had never heard of it, but liked that it had lots of hiking. So on Wednesday morning we packed up the car and headed West.
The drive over there was fantastic! Good Lord, the Cascade Mountains are gorgeous. I had forgotten after being away from Washington for so long.
We got there and were directed to the cabin. Raf laughed when he saw it. It was super clean! And it had heat and electricity. We were really roughing it!
The hiking was fantastic. The next day we went on the 3 mile hike to the upper falls. It was absolutely breathtaking. Better than Multnomah Falls, in my opinion. There are three parts to the falls: lower, middle, and upper. The lower falls is the halfway point and there is a lovely picnic area there. The hike gets kind of steep after that but there are lots of nice benches that one can rest on as they go up the trail. The upper falls are in the deep forest. The picture above was taken at the top. It is think and lush, and dark. It was raining pretty hard by that time and it was very foggy. The trail continues but there are signs that say people tend to get lost after this point. They also had a news paper article about two sisters who got lost in this forest for two days because they lost the trail.
I’m not in the best shape, so we didn’t venture further. We turned around and headed down. It was steep so my toes got bruised from being pushed against the front of my shoes. It was so worth it, though! What a beautiful hike.
We came home on Friday morning first thing. I kind of regret leaving so early but it was raining really hard. I was kind of done with the rain. We had fun, though. You can check out the rest of my pictures on my Wallace Falls Flickr set.
interpretive trail, originally uploaded by CraftyMoni.
We got back from our camping trip at Wallace Falls. I’ll tell you all about it tomorrow. I want to go through my pictures and stuff. Right now I’m going to go get Indian Food.
clouds reflected on Lake Coeur d ‘Alene, originally uploaded by CraftyMoni.
I completely forgot about posting my Photography Friday post! Actually, I kind of spaced blog posting all week. This week has been absolutely insane. We are getting ready for the Summer Reading Program so I have been very busy. I was lucky to have the day off yesterday in exchange for Memorial day (long story) so Raf and I went for a walk around Tubbs Hill in Coeur d’Alene. It was really nice.
