Just Me!!

I took 3 days Bereavement for Grandpa's funeral. Mark took me to Packwood to have a few days just to think and talk through my grandfather's passing. The mountain and time with Mark is just what I needed to process the whole month. I can't believe my grandpa is gone. He was such a wonderful man and absolutely loved everyone he met. He never met a stranger ever!  Mark and I spent our days geocaching more finds near Packwood and Milton, sight seeing Paradise and Boxed Canyon, eating a yummy meal at the Blue Spruce, and making Mark's favorite recipe that I thought I had lost and hadn't made in 10 years (just suddenly showed up). The views up at Boxed Canyon were amazing. Mark had to use the restroom at Boxed Canyon so I snuck down a path that was off the marked trail to a beautiful rock cliff that overlooked the canyons. I was pretty nervous to get near the ledge but I did for a quick picture! The view was incredible!!  Probably could've told Mark where I went........

                                 When I write posts I seriously don't include every picture I take. These are just a small portion of them. We finished the second day with the Slaughters in Vancouver. My pedometer closed nearly 14000 steps that day. We walked all over Stanley Park and visited the Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge. The views from the bridge were beautiful but we had a ton of fun crossing the river to Geocache (thank goodness Chris helped me across-I was worried that my phone would get wet) and hiking up to where they cliff jump off the rocks into the water below. I think by the end of the weekend we had found 18-19 caches.  Chris and Kourtney are gone now. This past Thursday-Friday we had our last adventures together. We took the kids Geocahing in DuPont and did the Paul Bunyon cache series and went to the Bite of Seattle. At The Bite we ate: Alligator on a stick Potato and Cheese piero...