… More travelling! Today we took the trek to Mt. St. Helens since we thought we were running out of clear weather.

The site is really amazing, how strange the landscape is from the blast of the volcano. It’s more like being in a desert.

It’s late and Mike already posted pictures, so I’m turning this over to his blog.

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(That’s “pyoo-al-ip.”)

Today we went to the Puyallip fair, which I guess is our “state” fair as far as 4-H goes, although it’s not called the state fair. (There was a fair last month called the Evergreen State Fair. … It confuses me.)

Anyway, it really is a fantastic fair. HUGE fairgrounds with a lot of permanent fixtures, paved walkways, etc. There were all the usual fair things – rides, fried food (we enjoyed “krunchy pups,” aka corn dogs, slushies and an elephant ear.) There were lots of livestock stalls, the crafts and hobby displays, vegetable displays, the big tent with all the people selling cookware and steam mops, etc.

We went with our Canadian friend (and his Canadian friend, too) and they are used to a big stampede-rodeo-fair thing. So they had pretty high expectations of Puallip. We were all satisfied and had a great time!

Also, it was about NINETY here today. Not a cloud in the sky. We are actually contemplating squeezing in a trip to Mt. St. Helens tomorrow. Normally, we wouldn’t travel this much in one weekend, but we’re probably running out of clear days to go see the volcano.

Enjoy some pics from the fair! I did not color adjust these photos, THAT is the real sky.

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The bear and the monster got their haircuts yesterday! Don’t they look sophisticated? It’s so disconcerting, doesn’t seem to fit their bear and monster personalities.

Speaking of… I should probably go see what they are doing two floors away from me!

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… To love the flag SO much, you’d put that on your car.

Yes, that is a plastic canvas flag on a car antenna! That is a GEM, I tell you.

Now, personally, I think it’s sweet… kind of. I’ve just never seen plastic canvas used in that application! In fact, until last week, I hadn’t even SEEN plastic canvas since I was in the fourth grade. (Remember those tissue boxes we made in fourth grade?)

Now, I did see some plastic canvas used last week, when these folks became a Twitter friend. Check. This. Out.

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We’d been hearing that Snoqualmie Falls was a don’t miss attraction. So we decided to head out there on Sunday of our long weekend. It was a kinda rainy day, so we figured might as well go stand in the falls mist for an hour or so.

The falls are beautiful, as you can see. (People who watched Twin Peaks may know it as the town in which the show was set, and the falls are supposedly in opening credits.) There’s an overlook at the top, and a pretty steep hike down. (Not long, but steep! Cortny had a tough time getting back up the hill!)

When we were driving out of the town, we spotted a train – I googled it on my phone and found that the last one left in about 20 minutes. So we decided to hop on – the ride goes from the town to the next town, back again through town, to the other side of the falls and then back. It was about a 70 minute trip in all. The train was all antique, different mis-matched cars. Pretty cool.

I was in charge of the flip video camera, so we do have some video. We haven’t downloaded it yet. If there are any gems, I will post.

The rest of the weekend was great. Friday I finished my book, Saturday we did pretty much nothing, Sunday was yoga and the outing, and Monday was some more relaxing. We did some cooking and played some Price is Right on the Wii.

Mike has a picasa album of all the photos from the Falls. See them here.

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