Catching up....

As some of you have noticed, we haven't really kept the blog up-to-date lately. Now, we get to play catch-up. :-)

Seafair

After a week of watching the Blue Angels during my lunch break, Amy and I went down to lake washington to watch the performance. It was a perspective that I had never seen before (I usually saw it from Boeing field) and lucky for me, my camera battery lasted long enough to get these shots. Before the Blue Angels performed, there was an a10 warthog and a Coast Guard helicopter among other planes.

Mt. Rainier

A few weekends ago, we went up to Mt. Rainier to go on a hike and so Amy could get a good close-up of the mountain. We started from Sunrise and did the hike to the Mt. Fremont lookout and it took a few hours. Here are some of the pictures:


This is Amy at the beginning of the trail at Sunrise. In the picture below, you can see the path we took out to the lookout point. This was after the intense steep part of the trail. The lookout is the little dot at the tip of the mountain.

Finally we made it!!! Lucky for us, there was a gazillion mosquitoes that made it too so we weren't able to stay long. Even with bug spray they were still annoying. Before leaving, we got this picture. Unfortunately the big chipmunk that was at the lookout didn't want to be in the picture. Lucky for us, Amy wanted to be in the picture? :)

Since we had to look at a car before going on the hike, we didn't start until around 12:30. By that time, it was 1,245 degrees. Ok so maybe only around 85 degrees but it was hot! The bag that I was carrying left a good sweat mark on my back:

Amy thought that it looked like a face. It was a fun trip and a good hike. Despite wearing SPF 50 sunblock, Amy got a sunburn which is still visible 3 weeks later.