Olympic Peninsula Getaway

I have been bad about blogging this year. I haven't posted since school started, making this my longest drought yet in 12 years.

We had a really fun trip planned in late June to Branson, MO, and another trip to Hawaii in August, but of course we had to cancel both. Instead, we made several trips to our condo at Crescent Bar. As I've mentioned a few times before, we were gifted one of the in-laws' condos in late 2019, and it needed lots of updating to make it rental ready, so we made several trips over there between February and September to replace furniture and bedding, purge excess household items, etc. We still have a ways to go but we're getting there. I've been meaning to do a before and after post for some time, so hopefully I will get to it soon.

Having cancelled our trips to Branson and Hawaii, we had timeshare points that we were going to lose (you'd think with COVID and all they would grant an exception but whatever), so we decided to book a little weekend getaway to Port Townsend in September. We left on a Friday right around noon, when the girls were done with school for the day other than "process time" which we excused them from. It's about a 2.5- or 3-hour drive, so once we got there we got settled into our room and then walked around the "resort". There wasn't much to see, except for Discovery Bay and a cool old abandoned restaurant. Then we drove into Sequim (pronounced "Skwim") for dinner. The next day, we met Paul's cousin for breakfast in Port Townsend, then we drove out to Fort Flagler to walk around and explore the old gun batteries (concrete forts with big guns and cannons on top (most of which have been removed). I think from WWI and/or WWII). After that we went to the Olympic Game Farm, where you drive through and look at animals and some will come right up to your car. You can buy bread to feed them. The buffalo will literally stick their heads through your open windows in hopes of a scoring a snack. It's really cool. Good way to break in our brand new car. I think after that we went to a state park with a 5-mile-long spit with a lighthouse at the end that you can hike out to but we didn't have time to go all the way (as if the girls would have anyway) so we just walked on the beach a ways and then turned around. The next day we drove out to Hurricane Ridge and hiked around there, and then it was time to head home. It was such a fun little trip!

Foggy Discovery Bay

I believe that's Canada in the background

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