A Visit to Paradise

 On July 11th, my parents and I drove out to Mt. Rainier National Park.  The Park is only 2 hrs from our home.  We have visited this park several times over my life, but this is the first time that we have spent the night!

We drove up to Paradise on the south side of the mountain.  We had a quick lunch and then walked the paved trails up the mountain.

There was a lot of snow on the trails.  All of our shoes got really wet.

My parents and I passed a lot of mountain climbers coming down from summiting the top.  The air was thin, but it was the perfect day.

We saw alpine chipmunks and two marmots!  Not to mention, Mt. St. Helen's and Mt. Adams.

It was definitely easier coming down to the visitor center.  After our hike, we checked into the the Historic Paradise Inn.  We had dinner in the dining room and enjoyed the quietness that the evening brought, since most of the day hikers had left.

Last week of 2018

 Mom finished all her "Who hats"  for The Seussical.  I modeled them all for her since she will be delivering them to The Bridge School next week. (It's a Bridge School play).

Christmas was small, and quiet.  Aunt Megan, Uncle Patrick, cousin Maddox and my local grandpa came over.  It actually snowed on Christmas Eve and we had a white Christmas for two days.  

Dad and I got out and played in the snow.  We threw snowballs at the noisy dog next door-he ended up really liking the game!

We sparred at Hapkido-I'm in the red helmet, throwing a punch at Vu.

Una wore the ridiculous fun fur sweater!

And I got to jump in a stack of stuffed dogs at Ikea.  I am looking forward to 2018!

What has been going on in February

I haven't been going to a lot of school in February!  Last week the Seattle lowlands got snow and the Kent School District was closed for three whole days!  This was Monday, February 6th.

 During these pictures, we did not have power.  The snow was wet and heavy so a lot of power lines broke.  Fortunately, we got the power back on after 6 hours.  Everything was so quiet even though we live in a metropolitan area.  Even the plane traffic had stopped.

Mom shoveled the neighbors driveway across the street and took this picture of me.  Tuesday, February 7th, I planned to miss school anyway because I was going on a field trip with the Bridge School to visit KUOW, our local National Public Radio Station.

Dad came with us too!

We started out in the conference room, but we got the tour and we even saw people talk on the radio! Wednesday, February 8th, Andy Sabrina and I went swimming to at the Federal Community Center.  All the Federal Way kids were in school, so we only had to share the pool with a handful of other kids.  Here are Andy & Sabrina in the dry sauna.  I love to warm up in this room.

The three of us spent most of the time swimming the lazy river.  Back to school on February 9th.  This week, we only go to school for half days due to conferences.  Next week we are off because it is mid-winter break!  No school February!

December

 So far December has been a fun month!  We got a little snow about tens days ago, but still had school!!!!!  That's Sabrina.

It's still dark when we get to school, because school starts at 8:00 am.

Mom taught art to all the elementary classes.  She found this great project on drawing the Northern Lights.  Here is mine:

I also have Hapkido, and on Thursday's, Sabrina comes too, so Thursdays are always more fun.

 We got to be partners.

 Sabrina got to practice on me and I on her.

 Grand Master took me down to demonstrate what we were learning.  It happened so fast!

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I am glad that school is finally out for Winter Break, but fortunately, there will still be Hapkido to do!

Snow in November!

 It snowed here, in the Seattle area on Saturday morning!  Mom and I got out (after she had a cup of coffee) to play in it and build a snowman.

There wasn't a lot of snow, just enough to cover the grass.  Mom made some great snow balls bur couldn't get a snowman going.  Oh well.

The dogs came with us.

After about 20 minutes the winds picked up and I was ready to head back inside!