Funny Lady.

We had one last hoorah at the lake to finish up our fabulous summer.

Ray's brother bought a boat and has been so nice to take us out whenever we are in town.

Ray's mom, Marie, came with us and she was cracking us up.

I was taking some random pictures when Annica flagged me down, pointed at Marie, and then at her eye. I was confused for a minute but when I finally figured it out I started laughing and snapped a picture. Marie seemed just as confused as I was so I showed her the picture and she just kind of giggled. I figured, at that point, that she knew what was going on and didn't really care to fix it. It wasn't until I asked her how it happened that she finally figured out what was going on. Oh, Marie.... We sure do love ya!

Needless to say we all got a pretty good laugh!

Los Angeles.

Final Stop...

Los Angeles, CA

This was definitely the warmest stop on our trip and we took full advantage.

We started off both days at the beach where we did some boogie boarding and soaked up some sun.
The waves were huge so I didn't last very long on the boogie board but Ray took 'em like a champ!

Then we did some "back to school" shopping (ha), caught a movie, and went to another baseball game.

We found tickets for $4. We were back behind left field and it was so fun because everyone back there knew eachother. We think they must have season tickets and go to almost every game. The people were chatting with the security gaurds, and the security guards knew everyone by name.

We thought it was pretty cool.

Go Dodgers!

We took this picture in the middle of the game because Ray thought it would be cool to have all the players on the field. We didn't want to get in anyone's way which is why we are squatting and looking all goofy.

This was such a fun road trip and I'm so glad that we got to do it!

Thanks to my fabulous husband for making it happen... I love you Ray!

San Francisco.

Stop #6...

San Francisco, CA

The next stop on our (as was described by Annie, and totally appropriate) "epic" road trip was San Fran.

Ray's friend Toby is doing an internship there this summer so we stayed with him and his wife Annie.

We came across the Golden Gate Bridge which was pretty cool; however, there is a $6 toll which is pretty uncool. Later, while trying to find Baker Beach we missed our turn and had to go across the bridge again... which means we had to pay another $6 to come back. Twelve dollars down the drain. Stupid toll!

Another one of Ray's friends, Daniel, is working in Palo Alto which is pretty close to San Fran.
So, the first night we met Daniel, Steph, and Brighton at Fishermans Wharf.

We ate some very yummy dinner and saw some really cool shops.

My favorite was The Chocolate Shop, of course.

There were some very interesting people and some pretty sweet cars.

Ray wants one of these babies...

When we were done, we stopped by Ghirardelli square and got some legit sundaes.

 If any of you have ever had Ghirardelli chocolate you know how seriously delicious it is.

Well, these sundaes are ice cream drizzled with melted Ghirardelli chocolate. YUM!

The next night we went to the Giants v. Dodgers game at AT&T Park.

Yes, we are in the nosebleeds, but that is what you get when poor college students

try to buy tickets to a televised baseball game.

It's okay, though, because our seats gave us a cool view of the bay.

But seriously, how cool is this stadium?

We got there early so Ray and Toby tried to catch a home-run ball druing BP...

This picture cracks me up. The lady taking the picture didn't quite know how to work my camera so we ended up with a close-up of Toby and the rest of us hanging out in the back...

We left our hearts in San Francisco...

Thank you Matt and Annie for letting us come crash your place!

We had a blast!

Redwoods.

Stop #5...

The Redwoods

We saw some tall, tall trees...

And all the water in the....... river??

(We took a wrong turn and ended up waist high in the river. Luckily, the water was actually quite warm)

The Redwoods were super cool. I'm glad I finally got to see them.

Ray kept saying, " Everything is just SO big!"

His quote of the day:

"I feel like a mini-man!"

And, of course, we had to find a tree to drive through...

Portland.

Stop #4...

Portland, OR

We stayed in Portland two nights.

The highlight of this stop was a cute little restaurant we found called

Old Town Pizza.

We found it the first night and it was so good that we went back the next night.

They had it decorated  like an old house. The second night we sat on a couch and ate our food on a coffee table. It was such a fun little place!

Ray's quote of the day:

"I could eat here every day..... for the rest of my life!"

And apparently we have a thing for waterfalls because we manged to find another really cool one.

We heard about this one from Ray's cousin in Kennewick and it was definitely worth seeing.

Mt. Rainier.

Stop #3...

Our next stop on the trip was our first camping stop.

We stayed in the Ohanapecosh campground at the base of the beautiful

Mt. Rainier

Our campground was snuggled in a forest of trees that were almost as big as the ones in the redwoods... and that is a big almost.

While we were there we took a couple of hikes up to some waterfalls.

Both were amazing. I couldn't get over how blue the water was.

One was pretty close to our campground and the other was closer to the top of the mountain.

Some other sights we saw... (This was such a pretty place!)