Since we have moved, we've been trying to do something new each weekend, either going camping, hiking, or going somewhere new. On our first camping trip (in August) we went to a place called Lake Wynoochee. It was our first time ever going camping together! The site was about 2 hours from our house so we left about an hour after Nate got back from work and got there around 7. Nate made a fire and we set up the tent (well mostly Nate did that, I'm glad he always knows how to do everything!) and then we cooked chicken and vegetable kabobs on a grill over the fire. Then we had Reeses amores, delicious! I discovered those about a year ago and they are my favorite, luckily Nate loves them now too! (You just use a Reeses instead of chocolate and it is sooo good!) After that we went to sleep and both woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of rain. We were both freezing and couldn't fall back asleep. We didn't bring any blankets, just sleeping bags. It was our first time camping anywhere cold and rainy so we didn't really prepare too well. We finally got back to sleep for a couple of hours. It was still raining pretty hard when we woke up.(That weekend there was a huge, unexpected rainstorm, that usually never happens in August.) We still wanted to enjoy our camping trip, so we bundled up and cooked breakfast burritos, putting the camper stove in the back of the car. Then we decided to do a little hike around part of the lake. It was still raining so hard, so we got completely soaked, but the little hike was so pretty! We saw about 8 different kinds of mushrooms (later we found out a lot of them are edible), and tons of pretty ferns and trees. The lake was so gorgeous and is the most beautiful turquoise color! After our hike we changed into dry clothes and packed everything up. We had been wanting to stay another night, but the storm was supposed to get much worse. (After this trip, we learned to bring lots of blankets and more changes/layers of clothes!)

Our only camping picture that we took. Waiting in the tent, hoping for the rain to stop!


After packing up, we drove to Seattle. We went to Pike Place Market and had fun looking at everything. We got some delicious chowder and sourdough bread that tasted amazing to our freezing bodies! We were pretty soaked because we hadn't brought an umbrella. The market was so fun to see. There were a ton of huge fish, and we saw the workers wrapping them up and throwing them. There were so many people selling the most gorgeous flower arrangements. We tried to go to the first Starbucks, right across the street, to get salted caramel hot chocolate, but the line was sooo long and we didn't want to get even more soaked. By this time the wind was blowing so hard and the rain was really coming down!



Nate has 2 friends from college that are married and live in Olympia, so we headed over to see them. We visited with them and their 3 boys and ended up spending the night at their house and then headed back home in the morning. Overall it was a really fun trip. Even though it was so stormy and rainy, we still loved camping and seeing some new places and had a lot of fun!