Memorial Day 2006

I really needed a break, so was excited to head to Seattle. Hari, Sesha and I were planning to go around Washington State for the long weekend. Rain welcomed me to Seattle and little did I know that it was just the start of more impending rain.

After renting the car, we headed to Tacoma and stayed there overnight to head to Mount Rainier the next morning. It was of course raining all the way to Mount Rainier and once we went up to 4000 ft it was snowing and was impossible to go any further. We headed to Seattle downtown to make our day a little more active...After a visit to the Pikes Market Place; we headed to Space Needle where we attended the "NORTHWEST FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL". It was a fun filled evening watching all the performances, listening to music and going around visiting the stalls.

Saturday - We drove to Olympic National Park. The weather was very decent compared to the rest of the week; it did not rain as much though it was cloudy. We trekked almost 10 miles totally. Olympic National Park is a beautiful place to visit; it has everything from snow capped mountains, rain forests to beaches. We hiked to the Sol Duc Falls and we then headed to Hoh Rain Forest where we hiked the "Spruce Nature Trail" and "Hall of Mosses Trail" and we started driving towards the beaches of Olympic NP. After visiting the First, Second and Third Beaches we hiked the "Rialto Beach Trail" and went up to the "Hole-in-the-wall". We were all tired by the end of the day.

Sunday - The least planned day of the trip. We wanted to go whale watching in the San Juan Islands. We of course started driving to Anacortes on a raining morning. All the whale watching outfitters did not have any available space for us. We immaterial decided to take the ferry from Anacortes to Orca Island, we took our car along as well (The WA State Ferry is relatively cheap - they charged us only 65 bucks for the car and 3 passengers). At the end of the day we were not able to make it on to any of the whale watching boats; we just drove/walked around the island.

Monday - After a "wet" and nice time in WA we headed back to our places. Seattle is a nice place....but I would not want to live there - it is too depressing for me to live in a place where it rains most of the time.

Anyways back to work now...

Till Next,
~M