First of all - thank you for your thoughts and prayers for a safe trip. We were certainly blessed. Wednesday night before we left was a little stressful. Up until about 8pm the suburban was still not running. But Tim persevered and got it done. Thankfully it ran well the entire trip. I love that car. And here's our fearless driver. Up to any task or condition the road throws at us.
Everything was good and easy going the first couple of hours. I think this was the first rest stop we stopped at. We've had quite a bit of snow, but I haven't seen it pile up like this around our place.
Then we got into the Blue Mountains. I guess we went through them on our last trip to Seattle, but that was October and everything was dry. THIS time was tough. There was packed ice and snow and slush. At certain points everyone needed to get into one lane because the other side was so bad. Visibility was horrible. There were quite a few semis and every time we went by one huge amounts of slush and rocks spewed at us. We got a couple of pits in our windshield and I watched one rock crack a hole (not all the way through) in the middle of the windshield. Scary. I pretty much white knuckled it through the Blues. I think it might have been an hour and a half, though I'm not sure. We finally came out of them and a little while later we pulled off the road to make some adjustments. This was a beautiful site after a mountain range of snow that I thought was going to swallow us up.
We pulled into our hotel in downtown Seattle after dark. We soon realized it was more of a 'business' hotel than a family hotel. It was ok though. Well, except for the part of being surrounded by concrete and only one tiny patch of dirt behind the hotel for pottying snoopy.
We were on the sixth floor and had an interesting view of downtown.
Will wanted to show Snoopy the city. I'm sure he felt like he was going to be tossed to an untimely death.
Uh? Lady? you wanna put down the camera and help me.....?
more to come......
Thanks for the pictures, tara. sounds like you all got to see some of the beauties of nature along the way even if the roads were a bit scary. we thank God for your safe passage.
Posted by: gramma jayne | February 12, 2008 at 09:05 AM
wow thanks for the pictures, wow im lad you had a safe trip and everything went good! let us know more about Will! we love you
Posted by: Marshall, Catalina and Jeremy | February 12, 2008 at 05:02 PM