Dirty Dash 2019

We had so much fun last year that we decided to do it again this year.  A few months ago mom texted me to ask if we were interested in doing the Dirty Dash again and I said sure, why not?  She said this time she would have two teams, Yelm Dental and Move Strong and she would be the liaison for both.  We would be a part of the Yelm Dental team so she said to ask if anyone wanted to run.  We looked to see when it was this year and instead of June they moved it back to July.  Probably because it was warmer in July or maybe that's when the event could get the venue this time.

Around the end of May, beginning of June, mom wanted our payments.  I scrapped up $40 to do the run and gave it to mom so she could begin the registration process.  We talked Erika, Zach and Doug into running with us.  Unfortunately, Ben had a 24 hour shift that day so he couldn't partake in the activities.

As the date got closer, mom told us that her gym was going to have a BBQ after the run and that we could all come.  She asked what I would like to bring because they had a sign up sheet.  I told her I would contribute pickles, lettuce and chips so she wrote my name down on the list.  She also said that she would have team shirts for us to wear at the run as well.  A few days before, mom asked if I knew of anyone who would want to run.  I asked her why.  She said some of the people who wanted to and paid for it couldn't do it now.  I said might want to ask Megan and Matt since I know they were in town and could possibly want to do it.

The day before I got all of my stuff together.  I had gotten our packets from mom earlier that week so we had all of our shirts, swag and bib.  I found my shoes, socks, underwear from last year.  I figured I might as well ruin them more than they already were.  I got some snacks together because I really wouldn't have time to eat breakfast and probably shouldn't eat a giant breakfast anyway since our heat started at 9ish.  This year I brought the GoPro because I wanted some pictures of us during the race.  Often, we don't get the good action shots by the photo people who work for the venue.  Plus, you have to pay for them afterwards if you are in any of them.

In the morning I got everyone up and ready, went and picked Doug up from his house and then headed into Rainier to meet with mom.  We decided on taking one vehicle to the run because it costs $10 to park.  We got to mom and dad's house around 7:30 just in time for all of us to jump into mom's Expedition with our stuff and head towards McCleary and the ORV Sport Park.  We wanted to get there somewhat early so we could get a good parking spot and try to wrangle up everyone for some group photos before it was our turn to run the course.  It really didn't take us that long to get there, in fact, we were pretty much the first group of runners to pay and park.

We sat in the Expedition while we got ready and ate bananas and protein bars.  More people were starting to arrive around 8:45 so we decided it was probably time to get out and start stretching.  I walked over to the registration tent with mom and Erika to look at some of the merchandise they had.  I wanted one of those facemask or "buffs" that you could wear on your head, face or neck.  I saw one and bought it.  It was going to come in handy at the obstacle that shoots mud at your upper body.

Mom started to gather everyone for photos.  We got a family shot, a Yelm Dental shot and a Move Strong shot.

We had to remember to grab some group shots after the race when we are all muddy.  We made our way over to the starting line and the people who ran the starting line were outta control.  We got sprayed with the hose, there was a hula hoop dance off and lots of cheering and yelling.  I knew they were amping us up for what was ahead of us.  I was going to stay with mom because I knew she was going to need some help with some of the obstacles.

This year the beginning of the race was a little different.  This time we went through the pond before we climbed over the walls.  Then we ran about a half a mile before our next set of obstacles.  I tried to keep jogging and looking back to make sure mom was still behind me.  Most of the obstacles were gooey mud pits, tubes and tires at the beginning of the run and it didn't take us long to get through them.  We headed up a small hill where you had the choice of chugging a beer if you were 21 or older or a root beer if you desired.  I didn't chug any of them because it would be harder to run on a full stomach sloshing around.  There, I saw Leslie, whom I worked with in Retro, and her wife Tiffany.  I took a picture of them with the GoPro.  Later, I sent her the photo through Facebook.

As we ran the trail and headed down to the next pit, I remembered from last year which pit we were approaching.  It was the one with the cannon that shot mud into your face.  This year, I was prepared.  I pulled my "buff" over my ears and off into the pit I went.  I did get shot in the face a few times but this time none of it went in my ears.  The next obstacle was running up a really long steep hill...in shoes with no tread.  It made it harder to make it up the hill especially after a couple hundred people already ran through here and made the hill really slippery.  I had to find places off of the side of the trail to climb up.  This year I thought the hill was harder just because it was so darn slippery.  Going down was just as bad because you didn't want to slip and then fall hard on your ass.

One of my favorite obstacles, the giant waterslide, was fun to slide down.  I went down on my butt but didn't make it to the edge because it wasn't slippery enough to make it all the way down.  The water pit underneath of the slide was at least chest high in some spots.

When we got to the bottom, it was an open field with a few wooden walls, ropes and cargo nets to climb up and over.  The wooden walls with the ropes were the obstacles I had to help mom over.  We sloshed through a couple more pits, a blow up maze and close to the end of the course was another water slide but this one was steeper and shorter.  That one launched you into the pit of water and mud.  It was awesome!

The finish line was shortly after.  We all crossed it, received our metal, took event sponsored pictures, grabbed water, a banana and a granola bar and moved off to the side to wait for everyone else for our group pictures.  Eventually everyone crossed the finish line and we got our group photos.

Everyone got cleaned up and headed their separate ways.  I caught up with Megan and Matt to ask if they had fun since I wasn't running it with them.  They said they had a blast and would probably do another one in the future.  They also thanked us for asking if they wanted to come since we had some extra spots to fill.  I told them about the BBQ at the gym if they wanted some food and they said they would think about it.

I finally got cold and wanted out of my muddy clothes.  I took my muddy clothes off and wiped myself down as best as I could so I could put on dry clothes.  I had planned on showering when we got home.  We gathered up everyone and headed back towards Lacey, we dropped off Doug at his house because he wasn't interested in going to the BBQ and we stopped by my house to drop off Erika and Zach and I quickly took a shower before taking mom home so she could get cleaned up before the BBQ.  Erika and Zach would meet us there for a while.  After my shower, I took mom back into Rainier so she could get her shower and the food she was suppose to bring.

She showered, got clean clothes on, grabbed her stuff and we took two separate cars to the gym in Rainier.  I had planned on heading home from there when we were done.  When we got there, I helped mom bring all the stuff she had for the BBQ.  She bought plates, plastic silverware, napkins, chips, ice etc.  It was crazy how much stuff she brought.  We had burgers, hotdogs, all the fixings, fruit, veggies, chips and salads.  The food was tasty and we got to meet some of the people she does the gym with.  Megan and Matt did come for a little bit.  I did chat with some of her gym people, especially Emily MacFarland, whom I've heard of but never officially have met.  We all had a good chat.

It was time to go home so I thanked everyone and headed out.  I was ready for a nap.  I got home and relaxed the rest of the day away.  My body was starting to get sore and I could feel it.  I did do some stretches throughout the day.  I watched some shows while I tried to get caught up on my blogs.  I am excited for next year!

Next Adventure:  Debbie Doolittle's Animal Experience

An Ocean Shores Day Trip

Mom wanted to go to the beach so we planned a weekend to go.  We let everyone know what we wanted to do, where and when.  Mom texted Doug and he was interested and wanted to bring his dog.  I told Erika and she told Zach and they also wanted to bring Emmett.  I asked mom what time we wanted to leave and she said 10 or 11 a.m. would probably be okay. We let everyone know what the plan was and to have everyone bring the stuff they need including a packed lunch.  It was all set.  I packed up extra clothes, buckets, shovels and our "beach" container and set it aside.  It was suppose to be a nice day so I made sure we brought the sunscreen.

The next day I got up around 8:30-9ish and started getting ready.  We had a bowl of cereal and waited for mom, dad and Grandma Karen to arrive to come get us in mom's Expedition since it holds more people than the Escape.  We took three cars, the Expedition, Doug's car and Erika's car.  Mom didn't want dogs in her car which I don't blame her.  We left around 10:30ish and Erik and Doug eventually followed.  Doug texted us as we got onto Hwy 8 near West Olympia saying that Jenn forgot her phone and they have to turn around to go get it.  So they were going to be late.  Erik and Zach had to stop to get some food so they were going to be a little bit behind us as well.

It didn't take us very long to get there.  Surprisingly there wasn't very much traffic along the way.  Dad wanted to stop at Bi-Mart and Harbor Guns but we weren't here for that and I told him if it was still open we would stop by Bi-Mart on the way home.  He said okay.  We drove through Hoquiam and was finally on the two-laned highway towards Ocean Shores.

I asked everyone, before we got there, where we wanted to go first.  No one said anything so we were going to go to the beach near the center of town first...mostly because it has a public bathroom and I am sure Grandma Karen needs to use it.  We called Doug and Erika to let them know we are going to the public beach near the McDonald's at the roundabout in the middle of town.  They acknowledged and said we will see you when we get there.  After the restroom, we drove down the road to the beach.  We turned right and headed down that way because I saw an open spot along the shoreline that we could set up.  I really didn't like to be near people.

We parked and got out and started getting our chairs and coolers out.  Erika said she was close so we told her where on the beach we were so she could find us.  They pulled in next to us a bit after we got there.  Dad and I wandered around the beach for a while looking for random objects.  I was looking for wood pieces, bits of rope and feathers for my sand castle I am going to build as soon as Doug and Jenn get here so we can have lunch.  I found a few to use and put them in my bucket.

They soon arrived around 1:30 after a text message exchange of where they were and telling them where we were on the beach.  They got their stuff out of the car and set it up near our chairs.  We sat there and ate our lunch.  I made Ben and I sandwiches and brought chips, fruit cups, fruit snacks, some cookies and drinks.  We sat around hanging out for a bit.  Erika, Doug and Zach got the frisbee our and threw that around for a while.

I talked everyone into coming and building a sandcastle with me.  We grabbed all the buckets, the shovels and our "beach" container and headed towards the water.  We picked a spot and soon we found out we chose poorly.  We moved back a few yards and started again.  The tide was definitely coming in.  We had to hurry so we all started building the moat and packing the sand in the middle into a mound so we can start to sculpt it into a castle.  Ben did not understand the way we made castles so he got frustrated and stopped helping.  The way he wanted to do it took too long and we wouldn't get it done in time for when the tide engulfed it.

We spent a good hour building and trying to maintain the castle and the moats.  Two kids about 8-10 years old wanted to help us with the castle and asked their mom and dad if he could.  They said as long as it was okay with us and we didn't mind.  This isn't the first time we were joined by kids over the years.  We placed our little boats, the Orca whale and our "barfing" alligators in to our moat.  I dressed the castle in scraps of rope, bits of wood and seagull feathers.  It was a masterpiece.  Now we wait and try our best to save it as the tide comes in.  We lead a valiant effort but the tide eventually came in and ate our sandcastle.  We took all of our toys, buckets and shovels and rinsed them off in the ocean.

We walked back to the vehicles and started taking down all of our stuff down to put back in our cars.  Mom wanted to go to the Jetty which was south of Ocean Shores...about as south as you can get without driving into the ocean.  We all started to head that way but stopped at the rest area again before we started driving to the Jetty.  We arrived around 4:30, parked and explored.  We spent most of our time exploring the giant boulders that are there to keep the integrity of the shoreline from eroding.  On occasion you can find some really cool stuff lodged in between the rocks.  One time, I found an intact buoy that I brought home with me.  We didn't have any luck this time around.

We took some family photos and enjoyed the time we spent out at the beach.  It was starting to get chilly so around 5ish that evening we got back in the cars and headed out of town towards Aberdeen.

Everyone asked if we wanted to have dinner and we said sure and where should we go?  Dad wanted to go to Billy's, which was in downtown Aberdeen and several of us have been there before.  We drove the 15 miles and parked in the lot next to the building.  Erika and Doug would have to come out every once and a while to check on their dogs since they had to leave them in the car.

We went in and were seated right away.  They accommodated us by letting us squish together tables in the corner so we all could sit together.  There were nine of us after all.  I ordered a French dip, fries and a Pepsi.  It hit the spot after a long day in the sun.  We goofed around while we ate and I'm sure mom and dad questioned why they bring us out in public sometimes.  We all paid for our food and headed back towards home.

We were dropped off at our house and mom and dad took Grandma Karen home.  Everyone had fun and we need to do this more often.  I think mom had a plan for later on this summer to go hiking somewhere.  We will have to see where she wants to go and when.

Next Adventure:  Dirty Dash 2019

The Hike to Monte Cristo and GCBC

A few weeks ago I saw someone named Rich Schleifer (komikino) post to the Cachers of Puget Sound page asking if anyone would be interested in having an event up at Monte Cristo and I said yes!  He then asked everyone what weekend would be better and I piped in saying July 13!  No one disagreed.  It was set.  We were to make the long drive up to Granite Falls to go hiking with cachers I've never met in person.  I've seen several of their names when I look at the various Washington geocacher Facebook pages.  I asked mom if she was interested in going on a hike the weekend after 4th of July and she said that sounded good.  She asked dad if he was interested in going and he surprisingly was.  I told them it was going to be an all day thing, so meet at my house and we were going to leave by 6:00 a.m. since we had to be at the trail head by 10.  I wasn't sure how long it would take to get there so I gave ourselves some extra time for traffic/construction/accidents/etc.

The night before, I got all of my hiking stuff ready, clothes for all occasions, extra clothes just in case I get super sweaty or it rained, extra socks, my flip flops, cooler and some snacks.  I put the coordinates into the Nuvi so she could just take us to where we needed to be.  I found the Washington State DeLorme map just in case we needed it.  I knew I didn't need to put the caches or print them out because I would be with a large group.  I paid for a NW Forest Pass online and printed it out and set it with my other stuff.  I set the alarm for early o'clock and headed to bed.

I got up around 5:30 so I could get dressed, make a lunch for the cooler and make sure I had everything in the Escape before mom and dad arrived.  I was all ready to go and had to wait for them.  They were fifteen minutes late.  We put their stuff in the back and we headed to I-5 to head north.  We left the house by 6:15.  We got all the way to Marysville without any traffic, construction or accidents.  We didn't have to stop once!  Yessss!!

We took the first exit in Marysville and decided that I should probably get some gas before we drove into the middle of the North Cascades where there won't be any cell phone service or amenities.  Dad wanted some coffee so we found the closest place, which was a Burger King, so we stopped there and went inside.  Mom and I used the restroom and dad bought coffee, a breakfast sandwich and it came with these little potato crown nuggets.  We followed Nuvi's directions through Granite Falls.  None of us have ever been here before but have heard about it.  Dad didn't want his potato nuggets so he gave them to me to eat.

We followed the Mountain Highway, which was very curvy and swirly, and I checked to see how far away we still were and we were going to be there super early.  Along the way we noticed some of the trail heads and a lot of them were very familiar.  Oh, that's where Lake 22 is, that's where the Big Four Ice Cave are.  We might have to come back up here and explore these areas.  We got to the Barlow Pass trail head and tried to find a place to park because there were a lot of people here today.

We found a place to park a few hundred feet away from the Monte Cristo trail head.  We realized we got here way too early so we got ready and walked up to use the bathroom.  We made sure we had toilet paper with us because you never know about these outdoor public bathrooms.  We walked back down to the trail head to see if any other early geocachers would make their way there.

As it reached 9:30 and 9:45, geocachers started to assemble at the trail head.  I introduced myself to a few of the groups of people while we waited.  Most of them were from the 48 North group like I figured they would be.  They asked me where I was from and I said we drove all the way up here from Olympia.  They were like, wow...that's quite the drive!  Yep, I told them that I've had my eye on this hike and these caches for a few years just never had the right opportunity to go.  Dad got bored so he started to walk the trail.

At 10:15ish, the cacher who set up the event, Monte Cristo Meet and Greet (GC8A0XE), finally arrived in tow was his teenage daughter.  He was surprised on how busy the trail head parking was as well.  He said he had a heck of a time finding a spot to park.  He introduced himself as Rich and that he was glad everyone could make it up.  He told everyone we would be grabbing around 13 caches and he had print outs, the puzzles solved and his GPS had all the caches saved just in case.  Most people did but there were a few who didn't.  We all introduced ourselves, told everyone our caching names and where we were from.  Everyone was surprised that we drove all the way up from Olympia.  By 10:30 we headed down the trail.

Along the way I got to know some of the dozen geocachers that were here for the hike and the caches.  It was a nice day, warm and partly cloudy.  I wore a sweatshirt just in case it got cooler when we were in the forest.  Rich filmed bits of the hike as we trekked on.  He is a vlogger and puts together some of his caching adventures with friends and his daughter and posts them on YouTube.  The Monte Cristo caching YouTube video is about 30 minutes long.  There were 12 caches, 13 including the event.  Two were puzzle caches, one was a multi cache and the others were the event and traditionals.  What made this hike popular to geocachers was that one of the caches, GCBC, was one of the oldest caches in Washington.

The first one, The Start of the Hike to Monte Cristo (GC1FB9R) wasn't that far from the trail head.  I basically walked until someone said we were getting closer to the cache.  Once everyone stopped we started looking based on the hint.  This one, as we were told, was about 80 feet off of the original coords.  We started looking in this rock cluster and then I saw another grouping several feet away from where everyone was looking.  I walked over and there it was.  FOUND IT!  I yelled to the group.  We logged it as Team Komikino and that's how we logged the rest we found together.

We continued down the trail when I saw some people stop and look to our left in an open area with a bunch of logs and a picnic table.  This one, Zetara (GC3TE03) I let the others look for since they were roughly in the area the hint mentions.  I can't be that person that finds them all...especially without a GPS.  One of the cachers told us out loud that it was her husband's birthday so we all sang happy birthday to him.  We continued on.  The scenic views from the trail of this mountain range were absolutely stunning.

We walked down the trail through the forest and around washouts for a while.  We were told that eventually we were going to have to cross the South Fork Sauk River on a log.  As a group we stopped at an outdoor bathroom for those who needed to use it.  We gathered everyone and walked on down the trail.

We finally reached that spot along the river where we had to cross the log.  Mom and I were the first few people over the log.  Since we didn't have a GPS we kinda wandered around while everyone else crossed over.  We saw the washed our bridge and decided to walk to it and take pictures while we waited.  As everyone caught up to us one of the cachers mentioned that the next cache, Washout on the Monte Cristo Trail (GC3XRHE) was on this bridge somewhere.  We, as a group, spent some time looking.  Mom was the person to eventually find it.  We took some pictures of a frog near the river bank.

We moved on to the next one further up the trail.  The next cache, The Count of Monte Cristo (GC1FBB7) was one of the puzzle caches someone in the group had solved.  When we got there, I was going to let some of the other people look for it just so my family wasn't finding them all.  I didn't want to be that person.  We were there for an unusual amount of time.  I got onto my phone (I had an offline list saved just in case) to read the hint.  Someone had written that the coords were about 80-90 feet off and said something about a log.  I eventually went into the brush and started looking like everyone else.  I expanded my search way out past everyone and just started looking at spots that it could possibly be in.  It was probably after about 20 minutes of the group search when I finally found it.  I could not believe I was the one that found it.  I felt like the group hero.  FOUND IT!  Everyone came running over to me and they could not believe it.  I had told one of the ladies that I was hiking next to, after she had asked how in the world I found it, that my first 50 caches were found without a GPS back in 2010.  She looked at me with the wow look on her face.

The Old Railroad to Monte Cristo (GC1FBBT) was a field puzzle multi cache.  We arrived at the sign/plaque that we needed where the Weden House once stood.  We compiled the numbers we needed for the final coords and plugged them into one of the cacher's GPS's and found out that it was up ahead on the trail that lead to the ghost town.  It eventually was a lock n lock container hidden off the trail in a nurse stump/log.  It was an easy find.

The next traditional cache, A Tangled Wood Web (GC1FBC5) was also a really easy one right off the trail.  This one was in a crazy stump with a lot of roots sticking out.  It almost served like a small house for the cache to hide inside of.  It was next to a swampy area of the trail.  Double Trouble (GC1FBET) was a little further down the road.  Since my small hiking group was a head of the rest of the pack we had a head start looking for it.  It took us a little bit to find since the coordinates were off a bit and there was moss everywhere!  We did eventually find it but let others find it as we took a short break.  My mom and dad got tired of stopping for caches so they just went up ahead of us.  I imagine at this point they were already having lunch and exploring the ghost town.

The last puzzle cache, Learning About the Ghost Town of Monte Cristo (GC1FBFX), which is one you could solve at home, was just a short walk past a very strange large excavated area that looked like a meteor hit it and subsequently crammed with trees that look like toothpicks scattered in the hole.  It was weird.  The cache was hidden underneath a large boulder.  I looked at the map on my phone and saw we were getting closer to the ghost town.

So Many Choices (GC1FBG6) was the last cache before you arrived in Monte Cristo.  This one took us a while to find because there were so many choices.  We did find it underneath a large bunch of roots.  The container was hidden in the space between the root ball and the ground.  We trudged on.  We were almost there.

We rounded the corner and we saw the Monte Cristo Townsite sign.  All we had to do now is walk across the bridge, past the large boulder with the old metal signs and across a small creek into the townsite's valley.  But first, we grabbed Welcome to Monte Cristo (GC293KV) which was hidden in the crotch of the hemlock tree opposite the large boulder and signs.  It took us in a few circles around the tree before we pinpointed it.  I spent some time taking pictures of the signs.  We made it to Monte Cristo around 1:30.

I made my way to the township valley hoping that mom and dad were easy to spot.  I'm sure they've been here for a while waiting for us.  I did see them wandering around the area.  I sat down and ate my food for about a half hour while I listened to the rest of the group share stories.  This is where our group dissolved.  One guy went and grabbed the last two caches and headed out because he had somewhere to be and another group of people, found these caches before, so they headed back to the trail head as soon as they were done eating their lunch.  When I was done I walked up with two other ladies, 2 leep and cbagaason, and found the last two caches.

The last two caches were some of the oldest ones in Washington State which made them highly sought after.  Monte Cristo (GCBC) was published on 11/19/2000 and has been found over 680 times since then.  I've had these caches on my list for years and I was excited that I will finally get to cross them off the list.  I really wanted to go several years ago but I didn't have a reliable car, money or the means to get up here.  As we walked up the trail, a lady named Jane intercepted us.  I guess she is one of the rangers/care takers of the functional cabins that are still in this area.  She invited us to come see the inside of one of the cabins.

It was so cool.  We thanked her for the small tour and headed up past the cabin to where GCBC was.  Once we found it we all took turns taking each others pictures with it.  I left a pathtag in the cache and gave a pathtag to each of the ladies who were with me.

The last cache of the day, Monte Cristo Concentrator Cache (GC781F) was on another section of trail stemming from the townsite.  I followed a group of people up the trail and found it next to a large pile of broken rocks.  The trail was steep.  This one published 7/27/2002 and has been found over 550 times since then.  When I find caches as old as these I try to think about what my life was like back then and how much it has changed since then.  At that point I had just graduated from high school and looking into my first year at WSU.

I walked back down and found a small waterfall and took a few pictures of it.  I found mom and dad, we took a few pictures of the cabins, the scenery and some videos of dad pushing the turntable.

I thanked Rich for having an event and to let him know we were going to walk back.  We didn't stop very much along the way except to take a few breaks and to take a few pictures.

We talked about random things along the way.  We got back to the parking lot around 4:45, took our socks and shoes off, piled our backpacks into the back and headed back towards Marysville.  We walked a total of 8 miles.

We stopped at Big Four Ice Caves area but decided to come back another day to actually make the mile hike to the caves.  We figured dad was probably done hiking and didn't want to do more.  We just hung out in the parking area, took some pictures and used the restroom.

We stopped at a grocery store in the very small town of Verlot because dad wanted some beer but they didn't sell single cans so we moved on.

We drove through Granite Falls and found a convenience store that did sell single beers so dad was pretty happy.  I asked mom what she wanted for dinner before we head home and she said pizza.  I told her to get on her phone and find a pizza place.  We drove to North Marysville and went to the Pizza Hut by the shopping center.  We sat down and ordered mom a salad, shared a meat lover's pizza with black olives, I got a Pepsi and dad ordered a beer.  The pizza sure hit the spot.  We ate all of our food.  We paid for our food and got on I-5.  We drove a few miles and mom decided she wanted ice cream.  I had her find a Dairy Queen, which was at the exit we got off the free way earlier this morning, in South Marysville.  Mom got a hot fudge sundae, I got an Oreo blizzard and dad got an M&M blizzard.

We drove through one of those diamond overpasses which to me were so weird.  They are currently building one on Marvin Road in Lacey.  Should be interesting when it is complete.  The first ever one we drove though was near Knoxville, Tennessee and I had no idea where I was suppose to go because we've never driven on one before.  This one was just as weird but we ended up getting onto I-5 south and headed home.  We must have done something right.  We didn't hit any traffic which is always nice because we always assume we will when we hit the Seattle area.  We got back to my house around 9ish.  I am sure mom and dad were ready to get cleaned up and go to bed.  I asked if they had a good time and they said yeah and were willing to go on more as we plan them.  I got cleaned up, relaxed and headed to bed.

Next Adventure:  An Ocean Shores Day Trip