Our RV Trip to the Olympic National Park

5/21
We were glad to see fine weather this morning when we got up.  We took a ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge Is.  Everyone was excited because this was our very first RV trip.  We had lunch at the 3 Crabs Restaurant at Sequim.

This was the RV we rented, very cozy and spacious.

After lunch, we visited the Olympic Game Farm.  Kids loved it.  We saw a lot of animals, bears, tigers, zebras, and even a rhino.

We arrived at Crescent Beach RV Park at 5:00 pm.
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5/22
We left the RV park at 10:30am and had lunch at M's in Port Angeles.  Mimi and Oliver liked the dino toys very much.  We decided to go to the Dinosaur movie when we get home.  We then arrived at the Crescent Lake.  The last time we visited the lake was in 1996, when Mom was 7 month pregnant with Mimi.  Though the scenery didn't change a bit, it filled with children's laughter this time.

Mimi and Oliver with friends at Crescent Lake.

We went to the Sol Duck Hot Spring and relaxed in the pool.  Kids loved walking in the water and doing funny things, like "table" (see Mimi below).

	Mimi was doing a "table" and a strong one, too.
	We collected some leaves by Sol Duck River.  Mimi's leaf collection.

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5/23
We arrived at Rialto Beach at 11:00 am.  Kids and moms were busy at collecting rocks.  We even found one that has an M on it and of course, it'll be Mimi's rock.

The future archaeologists	Sliding away! Can Oliver climb up on his own?
	The strength of nature and mankind
Our rock collections

After the rock hunting, we had on RV.  Yummy!!  Then we headed for La Push.  Mimi was only 9 months old when we were here last time.  We loved it then and we loved it even more now.  We wandered at the harbor and bought 6 live crabs.  Thanks to SungLu that we didn't buy 8 crabs as Uncle Soccer suggested because they were huge.  (But they were really good.)  That night, we camped under a sky full of stars.  Dad and Mom even spotted a shooting star when they were enjoying a moment without kids (What a luxury!).
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Mimi at 9 months old	Mimi at 3 yrs. 7 months old		Oliver was doing a "table".
			Kids gathered some logs to build a ship.

5/24
We left La Push and headed for the Hoh Rain Forest Visitor Center.  We hiked along a trail called The Hall of Mosses near the visitor center.  Mimi liked to look for spots under giant trees or near hollow trunks and said that was her home.

Oliver is out!

We arrived at Kalaloch at around 5:00 pm.  It was too windy at the beach, so kids played in the woods near our RV site.  After dinner, we watched the sunset.
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5/25
We arrived at Lake Quinault at noon.  After lunch, Soccer inflated his boat.  We took turns having a boat ride.  There was a little bit of sunshine and a breeze.  Very comfortable!!

Kids playing in the boat before the ride

Oliver in a life jacket

After dining at Salmon House Restaurant by the lake, we hurried kids to bed and played the Pictionary game.  It rained hard outside but the temperature and the intensity in the RV heated up quickly,   as both teams struggled to reach the finish.  We created a lot of incredible drawings which induced the funniest answers.  We were all surprised that we could finish the game without laughing ourselves to death.  By the way, our laughter did awake kids a few times!

Mona Lisa by SungLu Guess who got the answer right?  It's Peggy, of course.

5/26
We left the lake and headed home.  We were happy to be home, except for Mimi, who still wanted to ride the RV.  Guess she could not get enough of all the fun.  Well, we are definitely going to have another RV trip in the future.

Kids helping to clean the RV.

p.s. The background of this page was made out of one of Mimi's leaf prints.  We gathered the leaves from the national park and made the prints after we got home.