Previous Photos:

2007-

• Visitor #2
• Wedding Hair
• Ball game in Seattle
• First Guest
• Man on the Roof
• Before and After
• Jim the Mechanic
• Just Down the Canal
• Welcome to the Neighborhood
• Home Sweet Boat
• The Cheesmaker
• Overdue reunion

• The Evanston gang
• The sub-zero chef

• What to do on a cold night
• New Low Temp
• Jim at the Bean
• Beehive in the winter

2006 -

• Kayaking in the ice
• Jim and Rowan
• Holiday Lights
• Tunnel Adventures

Our Thanksgiving tradition seems to be to go adventuring. This time we headed west (yes, it is possible!) to the Olympic Peninsula. I wimped out and decided to get a room at the bed and breakfast rather than camp in what was predicted to be cold and rainy weather. Of course, that reservation assured we would have beautiful weather. There are tons of pictures to put up but for my picture of the moment, I wanted to show you what we found on the Pacific beaches. Above is some kelp which had washed ashore. It looked like a whip to to Jim and me - so he tried it out!

Jim seemed to get the hang of the Indiana Jones weapon of choice pretty quickly. Just for the record, we looked up this exciting seaweed later and the official name is actually bullwhip kelp.

However....as I kept urging him on for the camera the gestures got a little bit more wild. Consequently, the faces got more interesting, too. These things can sting if you aim wrong!