LARGE trees!

Took a 6.5 hour drive to go see the Red Wood Trees in northern California.  I have never seen trees so large!  It was just awesome to be able to walk through them.   I had such a wonderful time going out to Washington and Oregon, along with California and spending the week with the hubby.  He missed coming home though.  He decided to stay out there and let me go see the sights.  He is only getting home every three weeks and that time it was 6 weeks before he got to come home.  Thanks to my wonderful husband, I got to see some wonderful country that I might not of been able to ever see!

Mount Saint Helens

I think the high point of my visit was Mount Saint Helens.  It was just beautiful but then you think about how ugly it was back in 1980 when it exploded.  You can still see some of the trees that were blown apart by the blast, and the desolate ground at the bottom of the gorge.  I never really thought much about the volcano until I went to see it.  I brought home this big coffee table book on the eruption and the destruction of the volcano with some awesome pictures and lots of history on the event.

Have a great day.

Cannon Beach

This is a pile of mussels, even though it looks like a lumpy and bumpy rock.

 Bird sanctuary, that is not allowed to be climbed on by us humans.  We had to stay on the sand and not walk on the rocks.  The rock is called Haystack Rock.

 This is the scenery from the side of the rock.

 This is a close up of the rock of mussels.  As you can see it had a wonderful array of sea life attached.

 Matt walking towards the rock.

This tells is just one of the signs.   It was a chilly day but I still took off my shoes and walked on the beach with crocs on.  You can't get to the rock when the tide is in.

Multnomah Falls

Before I was scheduled to go out to Washington to see Matt; I looked up things, that I would like to see.  The Multnomah Falls came up on the Internet, and I just had to go see it.  People used to be able to go on the bridge, but the fires, that they had out there made the trails impassible to get to, and unsafe.  I thought it was just beautiful!

Click on the first picture to be able to read about the falls.

More On the Dam

We saw some good size sturgeon at the habitat at the dam.  They also had some very nice rainbow trout. 

Washington (Bonneville Dam)

 The spill way for the Dam

 Bonneville Dam

 Fish ladder

The mountains in the Distance at Bonneville Dam.

As you all know, that follow me on Facebook,  I took a trip out to Washington State.  I couldn't believe how much there is to see!  I had a wonderful time.  One of the first things we visited was the Bonneville Dam.  It has a habitat for the fish that are spawning, it had fish ladders for sturgeon and trout and other fish.  It was wonderful.  I will post more pictures of the dam and the history of it tomorrow.

Back for now!

No pictures this time, but I will as soon as the son gets my computer up and running. 

Good news, I have now lost the weight, I have been wanting to lose.   I have to now maintain that weight loss.  I feel great and more energized.  I want to now concentrate on getting in better shape, physically. 

I have posted on Facebook some awesome pictures of my vacation to Washington state.  I will be posting more on my blog soon.  I had such a great time with the hubby, that I am going back out the last day of May for another week!  I love going home, but I love to see our great country, also.  I told the hubby, that next year's vacation  is going to be going to the Dakota's and maybe to Wyoming, also!  I have always wanted to visit the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, and of course a couple of wonderful friends that live out that way!

Hope you are all doing good. Talk to you tomorrow.