Laura’s Blog

The first section we visited was the rainforest region of the park.  The amount of yearly rainfall is far greater than anywhere else in the area.

The coastal region of the park was definitely a highlight.   I have visited different beaches on the east coast, the west coast, in the Carribbean, South America and Europe.  This one really amazed me with the enormous trees scatter along the beach and the beautiful stones covering the sand.

Once we had seen BC we rode a passenger ferry back to the states.  We wanted to see a different part of Washington so we headed to Olympic National Park.  It was a really neat park and one of the highlights of the trip.  If you look in the next section you will see some of the unique parts of the park!

Dad and I drove through eastern Washington and visited Idaho.  We stayed in Coeur d’Alene and it was beautiful.  It is a resort town and there were lots of visitors for the summer.  We even went on a seaplane ride over Couer d’Alene Lake.  That was definitely a highlight of the trip!  We also drove through a lot of desert like terrain in eastern Washington which surprised me.  It had been turned into farm land though irrigation systems.  Theses systems created circular fields because they rotated around a center point.  Does that make sense?  Probably not!  We also went to the Grand Coulee Dam which was built during Roosevelt’s presidency as a WPA project.

A few pictures of Seattle… Dad and I spent time wandering around the city and obviously spent time at the public market watching them throw the fish.  The fresh food and flowers were a sight to see!  It made me wish I had a farmer’s market much closer to me.  We also had dinner at the Space Needle and rotated around as we ate.  Our tour of underground Seattle was enlightening and humorous.  I can’t believe they built the new streets as the old city was still in use!