My parents had the girls over so Tim and I could get away for an anniversary weekend celebration. We went to Mt Rainier and had a great time. I forgot how beautiful that park is, even on a cloudy day. The first day we did a 12.5 mile hike or so up to what was meant to have beautiful views. You can see that in the photo huh? It was so cloudy at first we saw nothing.

Then, just when we almost gave up hope, look who comes out just a little bit. We were just sitting down looking out into the void and just happened to be facing the right direction for this brief viewing.

After another round of cloudy the mountain finally revealed herself quite a lot. It was beautiful and amazing and other mountain peaks showed themselves briefly too until all was once again swallowed up by the sea of clouds.

We had quite the adventure hike as you can see in the picture. Logs to cross, rock walls to scale, raging rivers to cross. Well, okay, not really any of that. I just couldn’t resist walking out to the end of this super tall tree that had fallen. I love the big trees and was so glad to be around them again (the standing ones mostly).