Fourth of July Weekend!

For the 4th of July weekend, we were able to go visit my family up in Washington. My mom’s sister and her family of 8 kids were in town. I hadn’t seen them in over 5 years, and Sean hadn’t met them at all! We were in Washington Friday night through Tuesday morning. We played on the zip-line my dad set up, we made tons of desserts and played lots of games! On Monday, 34 of us went to the lake and hung out all day! We got there around 8:30 in the morning and it was overcast and cold. We were all bummed and considering going home. Because it has been so warm for the past two weeks, the water was 75 degrees (warmer than the air!) It was insane! We decided to wait it out and we were glad we did! The clouds burned off and we had a gorgeous day at the lake. We went wake boarding, water skiing, tubing, swimming and sight seeing. We brought tons of food and the barbecue so we had hamburgers for dinner. Everyone got sunburned and everyone had so much fun! We saw huge fish in the swimming area and took lots of pictures. Some of us left the lake around 3 and some stayed until after 8! Because it was an overcast morning, we had the lake to ourselves until about 4:30. It was so awesome to be able to go tubing and stuff on the smooth water. We took tons of pictures and just had a blast!

Tuesday morning, the 4th of July, we went to the church for the flag raising ceremony, and a delicious cinnamon roll breakfast. After we ate, Sean and I went home and packed. We said goodbye to everyone and drove the three hours back to Portland. We were home for about an hour before we got in the car again, this time with his family, and drove the hour to Seaside. We set up camp on the beach, had steaks and hamburgers for dinner, and had a campfire. We walked around a little bit and got ice cream and elephant ears from the shops then went back to the beach. We lounged around and chatted until it got dark. Then we watched the fireworks. It was an awesome show! It is supposed to be the biggest show on the Pacific Coasts of Washington and Oregon. It was good! We got home around 12:30 and passed out. We were exhausted from all of the driving and long days.

This weekend was awesome. It was good to see family that we hadn’t seen in a long time and it was fun to just be able to hang out. It was great to be able to go up to WA for a little longer than just Friday night through Sunday which is how long we usually get to go. I love the Fourth of July!!