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Friday Harbor, San Juan Islands

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Earl is so good at picking the perfect day for an outing... ha.  Chose to head over to Friday Harbor for the day and friend Joyce with her little pooch Coop joined us for the day.  Perfect weather and fun.  Relaxing trip over on the ferry and although we woke up to pea soup fog, it was cleared by the time we boarded the ferry in Anacortes.  Then on to Friday Harbor for some window shopping in the little shops and galleries and a picnic lunch down on the park at the marina overlooking the water.  There is a little deli that makes wonderful sandwiches (don't know it's name) but this is the 2nd time we have been there and they make the best sandwiches!  After landing back in Anacortes we took a little ride thru Washington Park.  Beautiful spot overlooking Burrows bay.  Lovely and the weather stayed nice all day.  Nice to have Joycie along too and Coop was on his best behavior too!

Freedom Celebration

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Each year daughter Mary's church puts on a "Freedom Celebration" to celebrate our country's birthday.  Years ago it was just a picnic but not any longer.  Now it is a community activity and they have an untold amount of people come to the celebration.  This year Mary asked these youngsters to portray someone great in our history starting with grandson Micah as Abe Lincoln - he memorized the Gettysburg address and never faltered in front of hundreds of people!  Big wow!  He is home schooled with this sister and none of these children faltered in their portrayals.  Amazing to me.  We worked the cake walk afterwards and good grief; hundreds of folks all trying their luck on that one.  Too much!!  

Mt St Helens; May's Lake

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Working our way north we stayed a few nights near St Mary's just above Mays Lake with a wonderful view of Mt St Helens in the distance.  Of course she is hard to see because her top is missing.  She blew her top back in May of 1980 (a day I well remember)!  Lovely view our 1st day here and from then on someone let the word out we had returned to Washington and the flood gates were opened.  We never did have another opportunity to see this view... the clouds moved in that very evening and STAYED!  So funny and typical but yes, this is Washington and this is typical June weather.  We know this but somehow after spending a delightful winter in the sunshine and clear blue skies we somehow dimmed the memory of the grey, wet days. ha!  While in this area we did venture out one day to visit the Mossyrock dam and the Mays Dam on the cowlitz river.  One note, our son-in-law caught a wonderful 10lb king salmon on this very river just a few days before we arrived!  It is a favorite fishing h