Saturday, July 15, 2006

What We Did This Friday. . .

James was wanting to go to hiking this week. So on Friday we got in the car and drove up to Rainbow Falls State Park, which is 16 miles west of I-5 between Chehalis and Centralia. We've been there before. After we pulled off the freeway we were passed by a Ferrari. I didn't think much of it until we got to the park and went to use the restroom. As we came around a curve in the road we saw this:Twenty-Two Ferraris at Rainbow Falls

TWENTY-TWO FERRARIS, out in the middle of rural Washington, at 2:00 on a Friday afternoon. It's not what we were expecting, and seemed a little surreal. They started up and left just as we arrived. I wish I had a picture of the look on James' face when they started their engines--it was sort of a look of Christmas morning wonderment, and he said "They PURR."

We started with a little hiking. It was sun-dappled shade on the trail, with occasional strong wiffs of evergreen.

Hike Rainbow Falls

We heard birds calling, but the only wildlife we spotted on the trail were a few of these:

Slug

That would be one of the famous Washington State slugs.

I think James looks good in the forest among the ferns:

JamesAudrey had stayed up ALL NIGHT the night before, so she wasn't at her best, but she doesn't look too bad either:

Audrey

After the hike we spent some time down by the falls themselves:

Kids at Rainbow Falls

It was a lovely afternoon, but we almost didn't make it back to town for this:

John Tuning

John's band ("Keep Your Day Job") had their first truly public "gig" at Common Ground ("The Coffeehouse Formerly Known as Luigi's",) and it went very, very well. The place was packed, the staff was having to go up to the attic to bring down more chairs to seat everyone, there was a line to order and a wait for drinks and food. The band played for almost 3 hours, and for the record:

John's Band Playing Common GroundThere was dancing. I was impressed. It seemed like there were still a lot of people when the band stopped playing at 10:00, so I took a quick head count and there were still over 50 people left in the crowd. The greatest proof of their success? The owner of the coffeehouse has asked them to play again. . .soon. . . on a SATURDAY night. (I wish I had more pictures of the band, but my battery died out on me. . .pooh.)

2 Comments:

Blogger Suse said...

Thanks for visiting my blog. That is the saddest story of your magic (un)wound ball of yarn and Aust. Customs.

And that is a beautiful picture of your son.

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Blogger Rebecca said...

first, OMG! your children are gorgeous!!! (what is it with boys and their hair? my 9 year old has long locks, too)
second, how fun to say, yeah -that guy with the guitar.. he's married-to me- so back off,sistah! he heeee
i have to say that a lot (not the guitar thing)- the back off thing. yes, this has actually come out of my mouth before. my hubby has some freakish woman magnet. even my friends tell me how charismatic and handsome he is... ummm, am i ranting? sorry 'bout that :D

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