Over Memorial Weekend I went camping to Olympic National Park with Rachel. Vu couldn’t come because he had class on Saturday and was going on his 6th week of being on call for work. We left in the afternoon on Friday and drove to the campground. We went to the coastal part of the park. This was our second time to this part of the park, the first time was 9 month’s after we moved to Washington, 7 years ago. We really love this park. We are both a huge fan of water: ocean’s, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, rain, etc… which was a big factor in our decision to move to Western Washington.
Even though Rachel and I always talk on the phone a least a couple of times a week, we still didn’t have enough time to catch up on everything we wanted to share with each other in the four hour drive to the campground. I love being a twin! We stayed at the Kalaloch campground which is in the most southern tip of the coastal part of the park. We love this campground because it is right in between all of the beaches, which is our favorite part. The whole drive, from Snoqualmie to Kalaloch, the roads were lined with tons of these yellow flowers that I love. They remind me of Wisteria, but yellow. We got to the campground at 7:30 and set up camp and then started a fire to make tin foil dinners and s’mores. We LOVE tin foil dinners. We aren’t the most experienced fire starters, so I was very happy that we were able to successfully cook the dinners.
I have seen a ton of different ideas for s’mores so we tired out some ones that were new to us. Our favorite was the Andes mints. But the Samoa’s were really good too!
On Saturday we drove to Ruby Beach and walked around the beach for a while. Then we headed up towards Forks and La Push.
Becky Jael 