Last weekend we went hiking with my good friend Jeremy. This was Sean's first hike. In actuality he didn't hike much at all, but rode in a back pack on Papa's back. We started the day with good intentions. After Mom got done with a training walk for the big 60 mile Breast Cancer 3 Day walk she's doing, we quickly packed some food and stuff to go for the hike. We picked up Jeremy and headed towards the mountains.
Landon is a out of town friend that was in the area, so we decided to meet in Snohomish for lunch. There is a festival in the little town which of course meant that we had to spend some time walking around the town and catch up with Landon. Afterwards it was about 5:00 and we decided that we needed to get to the trailed, or we wouldn't get to the mountains at all that day. So off we went.
We drove out route 9 until right before the "Red Bridge" and took a right. After driving for about 4 miles on old logging roads (which our civic loved by the way), we found the trail head. We loaded Sean into the piggy back back pack and off we went.
The trail was nice enough, however with the late start and all we only made it to the first of the string of lakes. The one we made it to was Beaver Point Lake, about 2.5 miles in. There we stopped for some dinner and snapped the below pics. Afterwards we decided to head for the car, as we didn't want to have to hike out with headlamps with Sean on Papa's back.
We made it down OK and our wonderful little car enjoyed the trip too. We firmly would state that our car has been on more "off road," or gravel/logging/dirt roads then the average SUV has, especially in the greater Seattle Area. As for the car enjoying it, we assume that because we see gas mileage in the 38-40 mpg every time we hit the mountian roads, and no we don't do much coasting down hill.
Lip smacking good.
Caught Snacking
A snapshot before the 'squiters attack.
Sean, Matthew, and Jeremy (Stoa)
the first Halloween that Sean could partake in. Boy did he have lots of fun. We did the full gauntlet of activities. The Josey Grandparents came out and we all went to a local farm (roughly 45 minutes away). Sean had a bunch of fun! He picked out his own pumpkin, rode the stroller full of pumpkins, played on the play set, went through the petting zoo included with a "4 little pigs" show (no real wolf but a big pig), ate a hot dog and kettle corn and tried the juicy caramel apples, and of course, "drove" the tractor.
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