Greetings from Washington & British Columbia!

[eeyore]

Hello all!
I'm on a family vacation in Washington state!  We rented a huge camper and my mom, dad, brother, and two grandparents are trekking around for 13 days in Washington state and British Columbia (Vancouver Island, etc).

It's exciting but I'm going to be missing my internet and such every once in a while.  this is my update from our first full day in the camper.

We have free wireless at this campground but we'll probably be at a different location every night.
I will be uploading photos as much as possible to keep you all updated and I will post them here.

Love to all my FL friends and loads of love to my yuki boy (miss you terribly) and to the furry piranha as well

first images
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I want to go with my yuki boy on a trip in one of these pulled by my beetle

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^The one we're in...11 checked bags for the flight over here 

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eeyore's cousin from the northwest...very unique looking compared to the plain greys found back home

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Burlington, WA  KOA campground - immaculate bathrooms (massage shower heads with hot water!)

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very weird kelp I found on a beach

<closed laptop so customs could check out our rig>

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rocks I clambered across to reach said beach

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little scenic road in Washington Park


roadway to the campground in Washington Park


coastline

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coastline 2

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cool tree

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seals down by this kelp


Group hike, all six of us.


fishin boys (dad and brother)


my brother's always doing crazy stuff where he risks his skin
he had to rappel down a bit of a cliff to get down there

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pretty bleeding hearts (my grandmother called them)


baby kelp on the rocks

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Had to leave our campground at 6:15am to catch this 3 hour ferry ride

[LaxDrake4]

nice very nice

that be funny .... the bug idea
XD

[scarecrow]

sounds awesome! :]
but please resize. xD

[Even Host]

awwwww the little trailer is so cute   Hope you're having a blast Enjoy your trip and then get back here, its lonely  

[yer_dirrrty]

Shweet. So jealous! Washington looks beautiful! Have fun and be safe!


Psst. KOAs are amazing. I heart them. ^__^

[eeyore]

So at that little spot where I said customs was searching our vehicle, they really were.  I had finally snagged a wireless connection and the guy searched our entire camper, every little nook and cranny almost.  And we had to declare some beers my brother bought.  And he told us to make sure any fruit with a core gets thrown out in a trash can, not outside.

Anyhow, lunch time then off to do some tourism in Victoria (the capitol of British Columbia).  Red doubledecker bus tour (the buses were brought over from london), and a miniature world with trains that I'll take pictures of for Ian.

ciao all

PS  I tried to resize these photos before posting them, hope it's better. 



Then onto the gardens...world famous ones.

I took over 200 pictures at the gardens I think    My camera battery ran out before my 1gb memory stick did.

not chronological

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not all bees have died yet

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these are wedding worthy ::cough cough::





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my favorite

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sturgeon fountain

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star shaped fountain with spitting frogs

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The rare smiley face flower!

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My great grandmother's name was Pansy


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absolutely stunning flower...took 3 pics and none do it justice of course

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can you see the tubes?  I didn't notice until I saw the picture on my computer >.<

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there's a waterfall to the left of the fountain if you look close...


I know he's just shading his eyes but he looks kinda like he's worshiping the giant shell holding raccoon

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real bleeding hearts




I leave you with another beautiful one.  The end of my flower tirade.

[scarecrow]

Much better XD
And I really like these:
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[eeyore]

I like those ones too
I just put up some pretty flower ones too.

[scarecrow]

:I
So basically I love these. XD
And since I'm trying to learn things in Illustrator, would you mind if I "illustrated" them? :]

[eeyore]

go for it but be warned that I didn't even put up all my best...I took over 200 I think


MINIATURE WORLD!




counterstrike


if you pushed the buttons the trains would go and sometimes there would be night sequences


we thought he was a funny character


from the angle I caught it looks like real water huh?










the rides spun








guess who's house
















and we end the Miniature World tirade with the funniest of all because these guys were set up against the Plexiglas surrounding a huge exhibit

More photos to come of course (I think I took 150 exactly at miniature world only some of those were bad ones)!

[LaxDrake4]

oh god of course u did XD

[scarecrow]

dayuum
i don't even have that much room lol
then again i'd wanna take them with my nikon but i dont have enough film :[


BUT I HAVE A POLAROID NOW I am so excited
my dorm room next year = polaroid photo wallpaper you betcha :]

[eeyore]

polaroid wallpaper sounds awesome!

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Anyone think I should have a house like this? 

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water taxis


beautiful hotel

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brighthouse? 

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sock monkey puppet with argyle (my mom wanted to buy it for me)


parliament building


cruise ship


sailboats for the sailboat race this past weekend (still going on i think)



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where we had lunch (very yummy fries )


down the street from the sticky wicket


that ufo thing is a coastguard looking chopper that I got to watch land across the bay


fancy orca...just like other towns have other things Victoria has orcas - this one was by the sailboats...

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horse n buggy


The smartcar equivalent to globug


Shows how small smartcars really are; they even had their own parallel parking spots smaller than all the others.

[eeyore]

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very level campsites but no hookups...still amazingly beautiful

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stream down to the pacific


path to beach from campground


beach (as you can see)



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giant root system...beautifully worn


windy pacific but I was toasty with my sweatshirt and raincoat


my prized dinosaur egg




other path to beach


tide's out


what kind of tree is this?  anyone know?

[scarecrow]

Mm dunno about the tree o_O
We have one kind of like it on our campus:
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