Adventures

We took a short trip to Victoria with my parents in May.











































We camped at Banks Lake with a bunch of friends. We took several hikes and were surprised by the beauty of the area. We spent most of our time in the water, swimming, canoeing and going for wild bonzai rides (and even flipped). Community dinners were fun, too. While we ate the food, the mosquitos ate us.



During the hottest weekend of the summer, Dan and I went backpacking with my brother Larry and a couple of his friends to Windy Gap, near Mt. Rainier. The sunsets and the wildflowers were beautiful!













We enjoyed vivid fall colors on a hike to Ingalls Lake, near Mt. Stuart.








At the end of October, we traveled to Kauai, a spot we'd been wanting to visit for a long time. We found it to be the most pristine of the islands, much to our delight.

This is the Waimea Canyon.

This is the last beach before the deserted Napali coast, where we found some wonderful snorkeling (as well as a bunch of free roaming roosters). We hiked four miles along the coast and up to a waterfall, and swam in pools along the way.