We’ve had quite the challenge keeping up with the blog! It’s more difficult than we originally thought so we’re going to be less optimistic and try to post once per state.
We just finished up Oregon and Washington and they were fantastic! Here’s a little summary of the last few weeks:
Portland was our first stop in Oregon and we absolutely loved it! This city has a great community vibe plus lots of great food and tons to do in the outdoors.
Here’s some photos from the waterfall hike we went on close to the city:

Hike near Portland

Exploring!

The leaf is as big as my head!

Craig being thoughtful

Waterfalls are cool
After Portland, we stopped at Mount St. Helens on our way to Seattle.

I may look pretty but i'm a deadly volcano:>
Seattle was a cool city but it rained almost the entire time we were there!

Cool fountain

Lots of neat sculptures

View of the Space Needle

The Fremont Troll
At the end of our two weeks in Seattle we were suppose to head to Vancouver Island. Unfortunately, Canada rejected us! Their reasoning: we had too much luggage and Craig’s video equipment so they were afraid we would work and hide out in Canada. Craig thinks the real reason we couldn’t in was because my nose ring makes me look like a shady character… Whatever the reason, we were totally bummed and forced to head back to Seattle.
The following day in Seattle as we were out n about, we were hit by a uninsured driver!

Our poor car
Doesn’t look like much but there was a lot of damage underneath which caused us to stay in Seattle an extra week! Two of those days we rented a car and headed to Forks, WA to Olympic National Park.

The water was so clear

Mossy trees

Sara under a tree

We saw wildlife

The trees are gigantic

Salmon, we think...whatever they are they were cool fishes
We headed to La Push at sunset:

La Push and sunset

Rocky beaches are the coolest
We happened to stay at the “Cullen’s House” while in Forks. So for all those Twilight fans here’s a photo. It looks nothing like the movies because they didn’t shoot any footage in Forks. In fact, the author never even visited the town until after she wrote the second book. However, the town has designated houses for the characters, in fact, they have a whole tour. Oh and 4 of the Cullens did visit Forks which they have photos of in the “Cullen’s House”.
After Forks, we headed down the coast to Cannon Beach.

Oregon Coast
We discovered Fort Columbia(i think) along the way:

It's a really cool fort because everything was open so we could explore

We're playing in the fort

They stored the gun ammo down here

Have no idea the name of this type of gun:>
After Cannon Beach(we arrived after dark so no photos i’m afraid), we headed back to Seattle to get our car and it looked great!! So we headed to Eugene to spend a couple days with Craig’s good friend, Jason and yesterday we arrived in Mt. Shasta, CA!
Next stops: Redwoods National Park, San Francisco and then fly out of LA to Cincy to be home for the holidays, woohoo! If anyone’s up for hanging in Cincy we’ll be there from the 24th – Jan 4th.