We had another fantastic family vacation in a national park - this one much closer to home, the Olympic Peninsula. One of the great things about the Peninsula is that there is temperate rainforest, rugged coastline, and high mountain peaks all within an hour or two of each other, so we had multiple ecologies in a single week! We stayed at Sol Duc Hot Springs, which had duplex kitchen cabins and pools of various temperatures. Jordan and I enjoyed discussing the two stories of why the hot springs are hot: the myth, which is that the hot springs are the tears of a dragon, and the science story, which is that the water in the hot springs went next to an underground volcano before coming out of the ground. Jordan said "A myth is an awesome story which is not true, and science is amazing because you can discover things that nobody knew before." We agreed that both stories were excellent.
Sol Duc Lodge:
Cabin. I was delighted to have a kitchen and brought a ton of food; I cooked for the whole family (the four of us plus Dad and Sue) the whole week and we took picnics for lunch. We only ate out twice in six days.
Boys bouncing on the beds in the cabin.
Picnic. It was really good we had the picnic action going, as there was amazingly little for tourists to eat otherwise.
On to the woods. We loved the giant trees, the hanging mosses, the clear streams, and the general lushness of it all.
Best of all were the slugs, for which the boys were on constant watch.
Jordan loves posing in dramatic locations and frequently asked to be photographed.
He is trying to teach Aaron to look at the camera; he does this by putting his hand on Aaron's head and physically swiveling it toward the photographer.
Dale was a whiz with the timer function, so there are even several pictures of all of us!
UPDATE: Found a couple more photos on my phone. Here we are eating lunch the way we did pretty much every day:
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