The Great Northwest Loop-Washington State!

So after Idaho we began our trek to Washington state. There was a lot of this along the way!

 

 

 We drove through Montana, snagging a few caches including one in Missoula as well as one along the highway in a large bone!! We also stopped in Coeur d'alene, ID at the lake:

That night was stayed in Spokane and N8, Bud and Emma got their first Washington caches. On Thursday morning we headed out and made our first stop at snoqualmie falls, which was only about 25 miles east of Seattle.

Then we headed right into downtown Seattle and went to Pikes Place Market.

 

 

 We took in the sights, smells and sound, saw a few fish through, then headed down a set of stairs to an alleyway. We were one the hunt for a very popular geocache. It was on a wall of gum that was at least 20 feet long and 8 feet high-full of chewed gum!! With a little help from another group also looking for the cache we located in. It was one of the "coolest" caches we've found to date.

Can you see the geocache? It's in there!

We then walked down to the water and found another cache in this sculpture:

Then it was onto the Space Needle. We thought we would take a ride to the top, but in the end we were way too cheap!!  Instead we got pictures with it!

We did decided to take a "Duck Tour" which is a tour of downtown Seattle both on land and in the water in an amphibious vehicle! The kids thought it was awesome!

That night we stayed in Mukilteo,WA, just north of Seattle. For dinner we drove down to the water and got either fish & chip or chicken & chips and ate it on a bench by the water.

 

Then we walked along the beach, which was gorgeous! I love the rocky, drift wood and pine trees. There were loads of people just enjoying the beautiful evening, have small campfires in the pits and viewing the sunset. (We forgot our camera so these were taken with my phone!)

 

On Friday morning it was drizzly, but we still headed over to a park to meet up with Grandpa (N8's dad) and look for a geocache. We didn't have any luck finding it, but had fun in the rain and the park.

Then we were off to the Temple (the reason for heading to Washington in the first place!) for N8's cousins wedding. I stayed out with the kids and worked on trying to get new pictures of them for our wall.

 

It was fun to see N8's uncle and aunt and Mandy looked beautiful!

 

After the wedding we headed up to Bellingham for the reception. We stayed at N8's Uncles house in the pop-up trailer. It was one way to get me "camping"!

 

We spent the next day in Bellingham visitng and doing some laundry. The kids spent a lot of time with the chickens and loved it when the got to hold them!

 We also went to the water as well as the marina to a touch tank. 

 

Then we went to a neat waterfall right in the middle of Bellingham:

We had an awesome time in the Seattle, Bellingham area. I loved the weather, all of the trees and seeing family. I told N8 it was like being in the forest with shopping, a perfect match!!