It looks like it is barely in the water, but, I know better then that.
The drive to Mt St Helens was a pleasant one, there were plenty of turnouts and at least four visitors centers. There are still a lot of fallen trees and the valley still looks very barren. The mountain was steaming when we were there (upper right ridge of the mountain) so that was kind of interesting.
This long bridge is located at the furthest edge of the blast zone when Mt. St. Helens erupted.
And here is Sassy at Mt St Helens (dogs weren't allowed to be anywhere on foot, because they scare the wildlife...so we just put her in the back of the truck for her "I am here" picture)
As for "scaring the wildlife", this little fellow practically jumped into the truck with us and the dogs after we took Sassy's picture!
When we were coming down the mountain we stopped at a little hamburger stand in Castle Rock and had a really good burger, fries and a couple of shakes. We took the lunch to Seagate Park and had a wonderful picnic. Spanky liked the park since it had a lot of trees and a trail that lead into the wilderness.
We got back to our little trailer at around 4:00 and prepared for our move to Mt Vernon the next day.
We arrived in Mt Vernon on Tuesday afternoon and got settled in our new park. It isn’t the best of parks, but it will do. Rita, the lady who owns/runs the park has a reservation system that made my head hurt. There is no computer, all she has is a very large piece of grid paper that has all the sites in a column on the left and the date of the month on the top. Everything is done by hand, in pencil so cancellations can be erased. It is really interesting to see someone run a business who hasn’t embraced any kind of computerized system yet.
After we were settled, we went to David and Amy’s for the afternoon. Sienna is getting so big. She is walking and talking and has such a little personality, Although she still isn’t that sure of us, she doesn’t break into tears anymore. She let me pick her up and kiss her but just after that she wanted down. That OK, baby steps are fine with me. For dinner, David barbecued some chicken and salmon that he had just caught the day before. I had the salmon and it was delicious. We had a wonderful evening and I know there will be plenty more.
The only down side of the evening was that Paul lost the temporary crown he had just had put on before we left, so yesterday was spent at the dentist. The tooth was in such bad condition, they finally decided to just pull it. Our local dentist had put the crown on as a temporary fix, thinking that Paul would need a bridge at a later time. Well, the dentist here said that the only fix right now was to pull it and have our dentist do a bridge when we get home. He is doing fine, he has had no real pain, so I guess the trip can continue as planned.
Today we aren’t sure where we will be going, so I will write about it later. See all of you soon. Love DD
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