Northwest Passage

Silly me, I signed up for another Ragnar. Our friend, Steve invited us to join his team up in Washington State and we couldn't pass up a chance to go back to the place Chris and I first called home when we first got married. We went up a few days early to site see and reminisce. 

We left Tuesday, took a day and drove a 15 passenger van up with 7 other friends. The time flew, before we knew it we were in Washington! We stopped at Snoqualmie Pass and took a short hike before heading to our hotel in Everett. It was BEAUTIFUL!!! 

Wednesday we headed to Bellingham were Chris and I lived 14 years ago. We saw our old apartment and drove familiar roads. We took our friends up to Mount Baker, which is the first place we visited when we first moved there. 

There was this amazing waterfall. It's all fenced off so you can see how high and powerful it is, but it's amazing. 

 The trees are huge and it's so very green.

 We got up to Mt. Baker and found they had more snow than I'd ever seen!!! This is Steve and Kelli, they are blocked out of the bathrooms because of the snow. See the roof top in the back round?

 The glaciers are fascinating, that's one of the  biggest reasons I wanted to go. Because of the snow and ice, you couldn't tell when the water stopped and started. All the trails were covered.

 This is Chris walking on water. I was totally freaked out and he thought he was so funny. See the puddles of melted snow?

 We were figuring it wasn't very deep at this point in the water...

 ...but then we looked down the crevice and it was deep. Look how low the glacier is in the water. That's a lot of frozen snow!!

 This is Picture Lake. We took this exact same picture 14 years ago when we went up there. There's more snow in this picture. I'll have to side by side them sometime to compare.

As we walked back to the car, Jaqui got this great idea to sled down the snow on our bums and sweatshirts. It was exhilarating! We had so much fun, my bum was soaked.

Thursday we headed in to Seattle to site see. Everyone went up in the Space Needle except me. I just couldn't justify spending the money to be terrified the whole time.

 After we headed to the famous Pikes Place Market. It was packed!!! Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis were there promoting their new movie. We didn't see them.

 The fruit was beautiful. It was huge and so fresh. I wanted to eat all of it, or at least bring it home with me.

 After a long day of site seeing we headed back to the hotel to meet the rest of our team and decorate our cars.

 Friday morning the race started. It was very wet and humid. I loved it!

Such a fun weekend with my husband and some of our friends. Now I want to move back there!