Yesterday Reid and my friends Dan and Allison and I went on a drive down to Mt. Rainier. It was a lot of fun. We left around 9am and didn't back until about 10:30pm. It was a beautiful day and so the temperature was perfect actually up on the mountain. We did a little hike up on the northeast part of the mountain leaving from the Sunrise visitor center. Off in the distance it looked like one of the nearby mountains was erupting, which is what I was hoping for. It turns out it was only a forest fire, so that was a little sad.
Dan helping Allison to not fall in the water.
After Mt. Rainier we went to Randle to eat (which is where Dan lived for 4 years). Then we drove a long way out of the way to a road that was supposed to lead to Spirit Lake so we could see the destroyed car and the other iconic sites of the Mt. St. Helens blast, but we arrived at that road and it had gates across it saying the road was closed. That really sucked, but at least the ride was beautiful. Some of the not so beautiful things we saw were a biker who had his spandexy suit front all zipped down exposing his chest which should have really been left covered and a women that looked to be in her mid 50's at a scenic viewpoint that felt the best attire for being on a drive would be a swim suit.
Reid taking the map from me to try to prove me wrong (I couldn't find something and said it wasn't on there). It wasn't on the map. I won.
Oh yeah, and all of my Mt. Rainier pictures turned out way over exposed because I suck at photography which is why I didn't really post any. I'm sure Reid will be posting all of his perfect pictures on his blog within the next couple days so you can go and look at what I saw but couldn't capture on his site. Nope, not bitter.
Next month we're all planning on going camping to watch a supposedly really cool meteor shower. All details have yet to be decided on, but that's something to look forward to.
Speaking of views and mountains, I decided to take pictures of and share with all of you how Reid does his laundry. He washes his clothes just fine, but that next part in which you fold your clothes and put them away is something he has not done more than a couple of times since we lived in the dorms. I have folded his clothes and put them all away for him once since we've lived here just to get him started in the process, but it didn't last. He will go and put his stuff away when we are to have his friends over, but that's it. I do want to acknowledge that Reid is usually pretty good about keeping the kitchen clean and taking out the garbage--and sometimes mowing the yard haha (and spider killing...that's an important part of home maintenance here). I would just really love to have a spare bedroom back and not feel we need to close the door when there is company. :) Love you Reid!!
Kona in the background giving scale to the mountain of clothes on the spare bedroom bed.
5 comments:
Well Reid certainly didn't learn that messy way of keeping clothes at home. I thought we had taught him better than that!
Your posts are great. We love your sense of humor. The solution for Reid and his clothes is to get the washer/dryer with the auto-folding option. Scott loves this feature on his washer/dryer. He just puts his dirty clothes in the hamper and they magically reapper clean and folded in his closet. Like magic. (Allie and Maddy are the laundry genies at our house by the way, not me.)
That's funny, I remember seeing the smoke on top of Rainier on Sunday and also hoping for it to be an explosion....to bad :(
Hmm, that post was from Brittany, btw. Hopefully you can fix that and then delete this post, hehe.
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