Nana & Papa Bob

After a couple weeks relaxing on the beach we came back up to Auburn, outside of Seattle, where we spent time with Nana and Papa Bob. They are staying in their 5th Wheel here for the summer before going back to Arizona. They keep the rig on Bobs good friends property Joe and Sue who were gracious enough to let us park next to them and spend over a week visiting.

Our first outing was with Nana and Papa to the Seattle Aquarium where we were able to see and touch a bunch of sea creatures from the area. Jacob and Aiden tried to get eaten by an octopus during our walk through of the aquarium.

After the aquarium we took a walk over the Ferris wheel where the boys and Papa went up and took some great shots of the city before having a wonderful lunch of seafood.

While we were visiting we took a trip back into the city with our friends the Traviglino's to see the troll under the bridge and have lunch at a sushi restaurant around the corner. Just down from that was a site of statues that people dress up and take pictures in front of so of course we needed to do it ourselves.

We had a great visit with the other Hamilton clan while with Nana and Papa and got to spend some great time with my brother, sister in-law and our niece and nephew.

We took a day trip to the aircraft museum where the kids were able to see a life size space shuttle and walk through several planes including the Air Force One that Kennedy used and a retired Concord jet. This museum also housed several aircraft from WWI and WWII which were awesome. The one great plane we got to see was one of the WWII bombers that Laura's grandfather flew in during the war.

Washington Coast

After a few days outside of Seattle we found ourselves on the Washington coast in an area we had not seen near Ocean Shores, in Ocean City. On this part of our trip we had seven other families around us and we did not see the kids for hours on end. Kids from 18 to 3 all playing together with little or no problems. The first couple of days the kids dug bunkers in the sand around the playground and had sand wars until the old campground rangers squashed the fun. Now if the kids were leaving these sand bunkers and not filling them in after they were done I would be able to see the issue  but they were filled in when done and they didnt leave other kids out of the fun.

We were able to be part of the first beach fire the Hamilton's have ever done, the kids went around the beach and gathered huge logs that kept this fire going until 3am.  Laura and I went a little farther down the road and were able to drive out on the beach and look around which was fun. We had a night out at a bar down the road called the "Green Lantern" which had great ribs and beer.



We went to a lake up the coast with Barb and the Traviglino's to watch a boat race and sun ourselves. This lake also had the largest Spruce Tree in Washington or maybe the world. I also dragged the family for yet another National Park excursion where, you guessed it, we got another badge. The HOH Rainforest in Olympic National Park is another place that I enjoyed fishing and relaxing.

On our last day at this wonderful RV park we were informed of a whale that had washed up on the beach. This was another first for the Hamilton Clan on this wonderful trip around our country. It looks like this one died at sea and just finally washed up. Now we are heading back to Seattle for a nice visit with Mom and Bob.