Wedding Weekend River Float

This past weekend was a whirlwind of adventure in Idaho.  I flew to Boise Friday night and met up with on of my best gals (Maggie) whom I met 10 years go while attending my freshman year of college in Missouri! 

Maggie's cousin Soly was getting married and I offered to help out and take photos (this was a beautiful, laid-back D.I.Y. wedding).  The ceremony was next to a dilapidated barn on the side of the road outside of Cascade.  It was a gorgeous hot sunny Saturday, and it was a blast!! I hope to have some photos from the wedding up by next week, but I couldn't resist throwing up a few from the HUGE rafting trip down the Cabarton that half the attendees participated in Sunday afternoon!  

AND YES...that really is someone's face tattooed on someone's butt. 

Portage Squeeze

 

 

Saturday was spent like a good, sunny Saturday should be...outside biking and exploring.  Rach and I biked down to the ferry from my house and took it over to Vashon Island.  We'd been warned by a few people about the hills, (and it WAS hilly) but that didn't phase us.  

Top to bottom/left to right:

1.  New frontier 

2.  Bike rest

3.  Keyboard purse in a local shop

4.  Rachel posing with "Cool Gary"

5.  Cockatails from The Hardware Store

6.  Self portrait

7.  Girl biking at the stationary bike graveyard

8.  Rach looking northeast

9.  Red bike left next to tree in 1964, now some 6 feet off the ground

10. Abandoned shed by red bike

We ended up with a flat that left us walking up a really huge winding steep hill, and after about an hour a fellow biker pulled over to help us out.  If it wasn't for him we would not have made the perfect timing to catch the ferry back.  Yeah for good biker karma!

First trip of the year:

What can I say...I had a wonderful weekend with my family out on the Olympic Peninsula. This is our 17th year staying at Fort Worden; I'm thinking a big anniversary bash will be in order when we hit 20 years. I have ascended into the world of adults and a whole new gaggle of kids take flight running through the old army barracks, the fields and along the beach.

Highlights from the trip included board games like scattergories, fresh oysters with Tabasco, walking on the beach, popping in and out of the cute little shops in town, pizza, taking lots of photos and crab cakes and French toast for breakfast! All my little cousins were cracking me up; watching them interact can be some of the funniest moments!

Fort Worden was a great start to the New Year and I look forward to whatever else 2010 has hiding up its sleeve.

It was a ferry good time

All the cool kids went to Hat Island Saturday night to celebrate my little sister's 24th birthday. While most of the day was spent drinking on the porch looking out at the Puget Sound towards Whidbey Island, Rachel and I were able to sneak off for a walk by the beach.

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We found this old ferry horn between two boring summer houses, the rest is afternoon-buzz history.

Dominate Destruction!

This last photo is what I'd like to call "Rainbow Rach". I'm not usually a fan of the overdone psychedelic photo editing, but I think she looks pretty sweet in this one.

Death at sea

Pete and I were lucky enough to take two weeks to explore Ireland for the second time. On the second day of our honeymoon we trampled through a marshy field to get to the beach. Once we finally found a path across a creek and over some barbed wire fencing (my left foot thoroughly soaked) we were able to take our first steps onto the beach.

Walking along the sand dunes Pete found some bones and pieced them back together. Possibly a sea lion, but we really weren't sure.