Washington trip - 7-15-09

Frank's Journal:
Last night we stayed at our friends house just outside of Seattle. Our friends, Doug and Karen, fed us breakfast of home-grown strawberries, blueberries, and cherries. The climate is a temperate rain forest and it feels great. We went to Mt. Rainier, a dormant volcano, and we went on hikes. We went up a hike up the side of a volcano. It was uphill all the way and there was snow everywhere. It was a hard hike at first because the air was thin. We got to a point that you would have to be a mountain climber to get up. Then we started on our way down the mountain. It was the funnest part. We slid around in the snow and had snowball fights! It was actually powdery snow not the ice we have in Texas. It was the most snow I have ever seen. After that we went on a hike and saw some cool waterfalls. Then we went back to our friends' house for the night.