Our Drive up the 20

If you have not discovered already, Mike and I love to go for drives. One that we have done a few times, but always seem to discover something new is driving Highway 20 east towards Cascade National Park. We started out early this morning and made our way to the visitorscenter of the National Park. Oliver loved looking at all the exhibits.

Afterwards we took a hike to a viewpoint where the video was taken. Then we hiked to a rock shelter that was used by Native American's to smoke mountain goats that they had hunted. I hiked with Oliver in our Ergo carrier, because he has outgrown his baby bjorn. He loves this carrier too! It was very hot today in the 90s, so we were all wearing shorts, trying to get some much needed sun!

We went on a couple more short hikes, we saw a huge cedar tree and we brought Mr. Ranger along with us! (Its hard to get Ranger to pose for pictures!)

Today was an awesome day! In all we saw 9 deer, 1 coyote, and believe it or not 1 black bear!!!! That was the first bear sighting for me in Washington, wow! I was so excited that I didn't worry about capturing it with the camera, I wanted it to stick in my memory. (We saw it on a backroad in Marblemount, so don't worry we were in the Jeep!) And to top it off, on our way home we stopped at the best burger place in the world, Birdsview Burgers! Oliver loved the milkshakes!