Since my friend Mary Lou and I arrived Monday evening, it's been busy, busy, busy. Tuesday we went to Port Townsend and did the touristy things and just relaxed in the late afternoon and evening. But --yesterday my daughter-in-law Laura, and grandsons Zach (5) and Arlo (3), Mary Lou and I went to Hurricane Ridge inside Olympic National Park. We walked up a short trail, took lots of photos of the scenery, wildflowers, deers, the kids on a snow patch, and of each other. We went to a Ranger talk and watched the film the Park service shows about the area. The Olympic Peninsula and Olympic National Park are wondrous places. Below is a photo of Mary Lou and me with the Olympic mountains in the background. We went to Zach's t-ball game that evening.
Today we took the boys on an outing to the Olympic Game Farm in Sequim which they adored. All the grandparents take them there when they visit. Compared to huge city zoos it is kind of tame, but lots of animals come right up to your car to get bread. We also went to the mini-aquarium and the petting zoo. Pizza was on the agenda for the boys and we took them to such an exciting and unusual place: Costco. But they ate like the animals they had just seen. Arlo looks at grandma quizzically as ice cream is shared.

My friend Mary Lou knew all my children when they were growing up and her son John and my son Tony were best friends growing up. She loves kids, fortunately, because my grandsons here are really active little guys who have taken to calling her Nana, which her own grandkids call her. I don't know many women friends who would feel as comfortable as she does staying at my son's very ACTIVE home.

Tonight all of us went to dinner at Bella Italia in Port Angeles, one of my favorite restaurants anywhere. It is famous because in the Twilight first book, the first date is at the Bella Italia. If you are in P.A., this is a must.
If I get access to a computer again, I'll post some more photos. I just can't master iPad and posting photos on Typepad or Facebook. Tomorrow is Crescent Lake, where my son and Laura were married, and the P.A. sculpture garden. What a wonderful, although tiring, week this has been so far.
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