Traveling the Great Northwest

This past week my parents-in law ( is that a word??) and brother-in-law came to visit and boy, did we have a heck of a lot of fun! They stayed for a week and we got a lot of goodness packed in. :)

Besides eating a lot of good food ( salmon!!) and getting spoiled by them, 

here are a few things that we did: 

 Had a barbeque in the park ( while watching eagles fly over us)

 

Visited Mt. Rainier National Park

 

 Took a ferry through the San Juan Islands to Victoria, B.C.

Visited the famous Butchart Gardens( after eating some yummy fish n' chips!)

 

Visited the Olympic National Park ( and saw TONS of wildlife!)

 

Traveled to the Hoh National Rainforest--the only one on the continental U.S.

And saw the Pacific Ocean! ( Second time ever in my life!)

We also went to the Ballard locks and saw a lot of salmon jumping up the ladder. So naturally we then had to go and eat salmon at Ivar's salmon house. :0) My wonderful mother-in-law, Diane, whom I lovingly  refer to as Mama Casebolt, treated us to an amazing massage and manicures on Friday, and we all had the pleasure of picking out a baby stroller at Babies R Us ( shout out to Crystal for the good advice and help) It was actually really hard! Whew! 

Dang, I miss them already! I can't wait to see them all again!