Tillicum Village

The older kids at my school studied native Americans last fall.  This field trip came from that, fortunately, the whole school was invited!  Mom and I carpooled with Teacher Andrea and her Family.  We were at Pier 55 forty minutes before the boat left.

 Forty minutes was a little too long.  I am behind my classmate in the orange shirt.  The sun was too bright!  Finally we got to board the boat!

Once on the boat, actors did a native American story for us about salmon.  We also learned that there are 296 islands in Puget Sound and in some places the Sound is over 1000 ft deep.

I liked being on a boat!  We went out of Elliot Bay onto Puget Sound.  It was a lot of fun.

We made it to Blake Island.  Supposedly this is where Chief Seattle was born .We got off the boat and walk into the Long House.

This is the Long House.

 Our hosts were smoking salmon in the traditional native American way!  Cool.

Huh?  You want to take my picture?

We got a traditional meal with mac and cheese.....the mac and cheese must have been because of all the kids.....I am allergic to both wheat and dairy.  Bummer.  It looked good.  After eating there was a show with more stories, costumes, masks, and dancing.  When that was over, I wanted

play on the really old play ground.  Mom and I had to chose our steps wisely to get to this area because it was covered in Canadian Goose poo!  Andy came out and I had a lot of fun.

Mom took this picture toward Vashon Island.  Mt. Rainier was hazy in the background.  Unfortunately her camera wasn't sensitive enough to pick it up!

Before we went, Mom took a lot of pictures of me in front of totem poles.

We got back on the boat and headed for downtown Seattle.  I had a good time.

We docked next to the big wheel.  Tomorrow we go to the local Farmer's Market.

Montague Farm comes to the Bridge School

Mom's friend, Vicki Eberhart, owner of Montague Farm came to visit the Bridge School today.  Vicki is a fiber farmer, that raises angora rabbits and sheep to make awesome yarn. Her farm is located in NE Washington State in the Okanagan Mountain Range. Her yarns are known as Bunny Gold.

 It was really exciting that Vicki brought a mother angora rabbit (Alexis) and her baby (Silky).

Vicki held Alexis, and demonstrated hand cutting her fur and also using an electric clipper.

Angora fur and roving was passed around in the basket, it was very soft.

Vicki, also spun some yarn on an electric spinner.

There's the baby-Silky!  SO CUTE!!!!

At the end of her presentation, she let me, and all of the other children pet Alexis.  It was fun!

Snoqualmie Falls

My parents have gotten it in their head that they want to do more exploring on the weekends.  This means, throwing me in the car and driving somewhere green.  This weekend, we went to Snoqualmie Falls.  Unfortunately the lower trail, down to the river was closed.  It is under renovation.

 

 I managed to have a good time.  

I found some rocks to climb on.

Dad showed me the view since I was having a hard time seeing it.

Here is the river below.  Next time we come, we will definitely walk down.

I did get a rainbow lollipop at the gift shop!