We hit the Saturday market in Bellingham where Jackson got his face painted like a tiger. After our glorious shopping adventure we visited Boulevard Park on Bellingham Bay. Rainy showed Jackson how to hunt for tiny crabs in the rocks.

Another clear day for our paddle back. Half way through the paddle Jackson needed to cuddle. He slept like this on my shoulder for an hour and a half while Joe and Storm towed the kayak with the canoe.

The weather was perfect on day 2 for a hike on the trail that follows the east edge of the lake. It was a clear day to see all the views of the peaks surrounding us. We hiked 5 miles to a beautiful waterfall. On the return we stopped by one of the campgrounds that had a dock and went for a swim. Jackson was both fascinated and disturbed by the little fish swimming around his legs that occasionally tried to nibble. The sun was hot and the water was freezing. Back at our campsite we hit the swimming hole again for another brisk dip. Great day!

Here's some photos from the first part of our Washington trip where we are visiting Joe's cousin, Storm. We explored the North Cascades National Park for 3 days. The weather was excellent for our canoe/kayak paddle of 10 miles up the lake to our campsite. Just a little overcast, but the wind helped push us along the 4 hour paddle. Jackson did a great job on the canoe. We kept him occupied with goldfish and he was very excited about the campsite. There was a lot to explore on the little peninsula where we stayed for 2 nights. There was a great swimming hole on one side, a huge pile of drift wood to climb on the other side, some other camper neighbors to say hello to (he loved that!), rocks to throw in the lake, and big sticks for kung fu!! We had a deer visit our campsite on the first night. We were a little nervous about just how close he was going to get, but all is well. He did not pass the clothesline. The overcast clouds starting clearing right at sunset to give us a glimpse of the snowy peaks surrounding the lake.

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Gotcha

ssshhhh

booo!!!

nature boy

looking for frogs

time warp

magic carpet ride

grillin

john wanted to cook jack, karen objected.

Hanging with Williams'

having a good time in doylestown

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heading to philly

chillin' with iz

one's reading, the other is eating raisons

Urban Dare

This was the clue sheet. It's in pretty bad shape now.

This is the map we used courtesy of Tricia, red circles are the places we went. Good luck figuring the route out.

Sculpture with the blues by the Blues Fest, spot #1


Teddy Bear Palm at the Paml Arboretum, spot #2

Totem in somebodys yard, we actually passed this but a neighbor down the road pointed us back in the right direction. spot #3

Red chairs in front of jury, spot #6

Neo's tattoo parlor, spot #7

spot #8

Polish guy, spot #9

Not one of my better photos, I think I was on the phone with Jess. spot #11

St. Pete Centenial whatever? Turned out not exactly, this was the last spot before the finish and we ended up going on a wild goose chase afterwards. We got within 75 feet of the real spot but missed it. We were 20 minutes in the lead at this point.

The finish bar, tricia and her croonies.

We got 3rd, should have got 1st, why am I the only one sweating?

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Jack getting his haircut in a fighter jet.

Beautiful Akron

Little Leprechaun

Watch out for this little guy. He's the most mischievous of them all!!

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Playtime @ robby's

New Ride

This our new bike with kid seat, replacing what was stolen. Picture taken on 2/16/2008.

It's batman!

It's actually Jason, but the picture is so dark it could be anyone.

Boston: some building I forget the name

working on our art

The first two pictures are actually the third piece of artwork - a more freestyle piece! He was experimenting with using different parts of his hand and then he remembered he has 2 hands! It started getting hairy when he got his left hand involved and we had to clean up.
This was his second piece. I think you can see that he was somewhat aware of the lines and the concept of trying to stay in the lines. The red dots are stars. He was painting mostly with the palm of his hand, so I was trying to show him how to use his fingertips. The blue swirls toward the bottom right were last and that's what inspired the freestyle piece. He needed to just have open space to swirl around.

look what jack did now

I was working on getting things posted to craigslist and Jackson
walked off and entertained himself by piling Dixie with every towel
that was on the floor, one pair of shoes, and one pair of slippers.
I had started the laundry earlier, so all that was left on the floor
were the towels. I actually stopped in my tracks and looked at it
like what in the world is that? Then I saw Dixie under all of it!
She is sleeping peacefully!!! I guess we can consider that her
punishment for running off.

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I passed this spot

supposedly 99% of chinese in their early 20's don't know about this or 'tank man'