Tuesday July 15, 2025-

Port Townsend – Alrich’s grocery, Pane D’Amore bakery, lighthouse cafe for lunch sandwich for Tam/Mer -sat outside on the water

Ferry

Whidbey Island – Ebey’s National Historic area – Junior ranger

Coupeville – sandwich and chips at Bayleaf, ice cream Kapsaw’s Iskreem – yum, historic center on wharf

Bellingham – bike shop andwhole foods

lake – swim and fish taco dinner

Drove to Lake Whatcom state park – 5 mile run dad and tam – tam in flip flops 2.5miles up 1000+ elevation and then back down.  Finished at 9:15pm / Mer/Miles hiked along water

ben/tam watched GOT

Monday July 14, 2025 – Olympic National Park and Port Angeles

7am left for Hurricane ridge.  

Hike Klahanne ridge out to first lookout but abandoned idea of longer hike

Visitor center burned down at top so did

Junior Ranger at the main visitor center in Port Angeles

Drove to Sol Duc Hot Springs loop hike 6 miles w/ ben and boys – mer stayed back

drove home for shower etc

stopped by natural grocery store in Port Angeles

dinner at Rachel’s house

Sunday July 13, 2025

left cabin at 8am to arrive at Rialto at 9:40a

Rialto – tide pools – walk to north end at Hole in the Wall

tailgate lunch at 11:30

Drove to Ho River / Rain Forest but traffic was backed up 6 miles – parking lot was full.  On the fly we figured out that there was a Bogachiel River Rain Forest hike just north so we took a gravel road out to it and had a lovely 4 mile loop in the rain forest and stopped along the river

Stopped at grocery store in Forks on the way home for dinner fixins

burgers and nosh plates for dinner at home

Wed July 9, 2025 – Seattle

Pike Place market tour with Free Seattle Tours

tried many foods – Piroshky, Piroshky, Beecher’s cheese curds and mac and cheese, dumplings at Mee Sum Pastry, french pastries at Le Panier

stopped at Target for Tam pants

took monoraid to space needle

Space Needle

uber to REI – sunglasses and back pack

dinner at Marco and Ksenjas (with Kyle and Tiffany friends also there) – picked up fish from wild Salmon market again

Monday July 7, 2025 – Seattle

bike day

bike to Golden Gardens for tide pools

bike to Ballard Locks

lunch at Thai – Pink Bee

bike to University of washington

Dinner in Capital Hill with Juan and Casey at Ba Bar then ginger beer at Rachel’s Ginger Beer, then a slice of pizza somewhere

Sunday July 6, 2025- Seattle

Ben/Tam bike to top of Lake Washington / Mer/Miles walk Green Lake

Bus downtown 

Underground tour

lunch at Saigon Drip Cafe

Klondike gold rush national park and junior ranger

picked up fish from Wild Salmon Seafood market (Tam and Mer split fish and chips from Little Chinooks)

Marco and Nikolas came over for dinner