Last Week of Summer

Well, it was the last full week of summer vacation (and it actually felt like summer. I think it hit 75 degrees 3 days in a row). We had a great week playing with neighbor friends, going on a hike and playing at the beach.

We went hiking up at Hurricane Hill (just past Hurricane Ridge). On the way up to the hike we almost ran over a black bear. I haven't seen one this close before and was glad I was in the car. The bear looked back at us after he cross the street and was glad we didn't run him over.

Hurricane Hill is one of my favorite easy hikes because the views are so beautiful. It was a great day because there were no clouds covering the views. (The mosquitoes were awful but the views were great).

Here is a view of the south side of our hike (we could see a lot of the peaks from Mt. Olympus to Fritzhenry).
Here is the view from the east

Here is the view from the North. There is Port Angeles down there with the spit and Victoria a little farther away

Lizzy loved the lake

The boys climb the rocks

Here is the hiking picture of the three kids.

We hung out at East Beach for two days. The first day Thomas and Henry built a dam (I think that spent 4 hours on it). The dam was really cool. When they broke the dam, the creek went a different direction for awhile. I also finally convinced Lizzy to jump off the log. She went out and jumped off and wouldn't go again. She told everyone she was still sick from jumping off the log. It was pretty awesome she went out so far and jumped. Henry also got brave and dived off the log. He said he touched the bottom (which is pretty good since it is so deep there) The second day we played on rafts with our friends. (I will really miss this beach----I love sitting on the beach watching the children play, bald eagles fly, just looking at the mountains and be able to tell you which peak is which and talking to my friends about life).