Time off

We had a week and a half off from work and were lost as to what to do! So, we all thought and Dad came to the conclusion to work more! We met this lady at the last fair in Chewelah, she offered to have us come to her dude's ranch and help out in exchange for her staff and children to use the rock wall and bungee jump. She said everything would be on the house! So, naturally we said yes! We stayed at this ranch for four days. Nice bedroom's, fed breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and desert, and we got to do some farming/outdoor recreation fun. We rode horses, fed pigs, chickens, goats, and deer, got to milk a cow, roping, hiking, kayaking, swimming, basically the works! We were very blessed to have met this lady and to have her be so kind and helpful to us.












After we had that mini vacation, we headed off to conquer another one! We drove to Seattle next! I've been there many many times, so I wasn't a tourist, but as for the rest of my family, excluding my dad, they were natural tourists. We rode the ferry from one island to downtown Seattle. We went to Pike’s Place Market, shopped around, and ate some delicious fruit and nuts. Checked out the wall of gum! We took the Tri-Max Tram to see the needle, walked around there for a bit. We shopped all over the place. Hit up the arcade, which Nathaniel hit the Monster jackpot on a bouncy ball game and won over one-thousand tickets!! It..was…awesome!! Dad won some hubba bubba bubble gum too! Probably not as cool, but it’s always cool to win something, right?!

We conquered that mini vacation and it was on to the next! We started to head in the direction of our next fair, which was outside Portland, OR. On the way, there are several waterfall hikes you can do! And it’s tradition to stop at the Multnomah Falls waterfall and run to the top of it. Its 1.5 miles from bottom to top, and the last mile of it is super steep switch-backs. Dad was able to run the whole thing, I ran most of it, Nathaniel tried, and Mom and Matilda walked up it. It was a great run! A lot of fun! We took pictures at the top and messed around in the water a little. Then Dad and I ran down. We had a fun time being there! We were able to hike lots of other waterfalls too and check out some historical places!

This completed all our mini-vacations for the week and a half! It was definitely busy, yet exhilarating! See ya! Smile!