The Merry MacKs: Camping on the Olympic Peninsula

Well, I think we've discovered what we are doing EVERY summer weekend we are here in Washington! We took a VERY spontaneous weekend camping trip up on the Olympic Peninsula this weekend and had an absolute blast. I never knew camping could be so active, dynamic, fun or exciting! I was always a s'mores over the fire type camper... Will more of the serious back pack the Appalachian Trail type camper. But this was great, and SO beautiful! And Quint seriously had the time of his life. Beautiful weather, ocean breezes, campfires, "tent nigh-nights," and all the running he could possibly manage. We can't wait to go back and hike one of the Olympic Mountain Ridges, Camp, drive to Lake Crescent and spend the day canning/kayaking/swimming, Camp, then drive to Sol Duc to visit the hot springs and drive to Ruby Beach to finish of the weekend in a lodge to refresh. Well enough of my blathering, I think I am going to let the pictures do the talking!

Foraging, no big deal ;)

No vacation is complete without me being ridiculous!

Loving Life!

View from the car

Olympics

Hamming it up ;)

Quint's on top of the world!

Manly Men!

HAHA, Will was like, "JEN! We'll take photo at the top, otherwise we'll never get there!

Hikin'

More hiking

It kept going UP

Will found this inspiring

After 2 miles of continuous switchbacks going up, we made it!

Family Photo... you'll probably be seeing this again around Christmas time ;)

What was I thinking?!

Campfire!

SO, Will is always giving me a hard time when I take pictures of the food I cook for my blog, so he had to take a photo of the Instant Oats we made while camping...

Lake Crescent

Merrymere Falls

Q loved this bridge. We ran int this couple that was shocked that we let him run across this bridge by himself. Then when he made it safely, they were kind of impressed!