Road Trip Day 3

Oh, how I love waking up to a nice cool morning mist and a Prefontaine trail to run on.  It's simple a great way to start any day!  I forgot how much I miss running on trails vs the road.

We were all pretty excited about day three and the fun stops we had planned.  First stop, walking around Autzen Stadium.  What a cool stadium.  Josh was pretty disappointed that there wasn't any football practice at the time, but he was soon forgot when we walked into the gift shop for a souvenir.

From there we ventured to the Salmon Creek area just outside of Vancouver to visit Caitlyn and her family.  Caitlyn was a RCS classmate of Josh's that just moved to the area. It was nice to see her and her family again and give the kids lots of time to play together again and catch up with their new life in Washington.

After a fun lunch with the Mercurio family we headed to NW Trek in Eatonville, Washington. NW Trek is similar to the Wild Animal Park in San Diego, but showcases animals of the Pacific Northwest area, i.e. grizzly bears, bald eagles, badgers, mountain lions.  It was a gorgeous day and not a lot of people were at the facility.  Infact, there was so few people there that Josh was baffled.  He kept looking around and turning to ask, "Where are all the people?" 'Isn't it supposed to be crowded?"  Haahaa, I guess this is what someone that visits the San Diego Zoo would expect from any other zoo-like area.  He had us giggling with how bewildered he was.

In front of Autzen Stadium

Carter's U of O football player

Caitly and Josh playing

At NW Trek

Male elk resting

Sweet boy

Brotherly love

Beautiful boys

After NW Trek we headed straight to Bellingham.  Michael and I were so amazed with how the boys did on out trek up to Washington.  They were GREAT!  I think we can do more road trips in our future.