After our exciting weekend seeing the tulips, Mama and Daddy and Miss Carmela went on a short weekend vacation to Lopez Island! One of Mama's law school professors retired there, and he invited the family to stay at the guest cabin. Miss Ela June was so excited about going on vacation to Lopez Island, and told her friends at preschool for that she was going!
On Friday, Daddy picked Ela up from preschool early. When Mama got home early from work, we all piled into the car and drove north. It was a really long drive, so Ela decided to go ahead and have her nap in the car. Miss Ela was awake by the time we got in the ferry line, and it was a good thing Daddy brought road trip snacks. We three had some snack and watched the ferry boats come and go until it was time to drive our car onto the ferry. After a really fun ferry ride, we drove off the boat onto the island and to the cabin. For the next two days, we ate, hiked, and visited with each other. It was cold, rainy, and windy, windy, windy, but we saw some really neat things and enjoyed our island visit. Ela was disappointed to leave, but we've started planning our trip back. After our second (or third) visit to the bakery (cinnamon rolls, Parmesan pesto croissants, almond butterhorns, coffee) and a swing through the bookstore (Dead Man's Clothes: The Bum Camp of Tolt, Washington), we headed out to one more park and then got into the ferry line for the ferry ride home. We had a road trip snack on the long road trip home and then a tuckered Miss Ela June fell fast asleep for the whole trip home. (That seems to happen a lot.)
On our first afternoon on Lopez Island, we walked down the road from the cabin to Agate Beach. It was very picturesque because of the incredible amount of wind coming off the ocean. We got to see a bald eagle soaring overhead, with a rainbow in the background. No kidding. It was pretty amazing. We also saw a few deer on our visit, and lots of sheep, cows, pigs, horses, and dogs.
Miss Ela June quietly looks at a story book at the cabin.
The lookout at Shark Reef. They're impossible to see in the picture, but there are sea lions sunning themselves on the fore-rocks. They barked and snorted at us, which Ela thought was hilarious.
Ela and Daddy see a decommissioned cannon at Odlin State Park before getting in the ferry line home.
Playing in the sand at Odlin State Park.
Deer tracks in the sand at Odlin State Park.
Seaweed at Watmough Bight, a wonderfully secluded cove with smooth agate-y rocks and gentle lapping waves. We saw a weasel run across the beach!
More of Agate Beach.
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