This Week's Adventure

Yesterday we tagged along with Ben on his sales calls in Olympia. It was a long day and the kids were tired of being in the car and I was pretty carsick most of the time playing navigator and personal assistant.
On the way home there was a park Ben had seen during a previous day of sales calls that he asked if we wanted to stop at. We agreed and this is where we stopped.

Tumwater Falls

There is a walking path all the way around it that comes from a grassy park area to the top of the falls on the right (top pic), around across the front (middle pic), and across the bridge to the top of the falls on the left(see bridge in bottom pic). This walking path has grates in it that have excess water running under them from the falls. Josi and Hyrum were like a couple of dogs that had just got out of their kennel or off of the lease. They were running everywhere. Hyrum ran out onto one of these grates and when he realized there was water gushing beneath his feet he freaked out, like he was going to fall through. He quickly but cautiously worked his way to solid cement and ran off. Every so often he would forget himself and run onto one of the grates and freak out again. It was pretty funny.

Next we ventured over to the grassy park area. Right in the middle was this sand ocean with two cement and pipe boats.

Walking the Plank

Captain Hyrum

Sand Angels

Swimming

-complete with breath holding and "coming to the surface" for air

Of course Ben takes out the laptop and gets back to work, ha ha.

If was only for a few minutes though; he was out playing on the boats with the kids.

*Josi is NOT mooning the camera, if you enlarge the picture you can see the stripes of her pants)