Thursday, June 20, 2013

Washington Day 5



Today is our last full day in Washington. Today was "rain forest" day so we hit the area of the park called the Hoh rain forest. We stopped by the visitors center and got Jr. ranger badges and for the first time...I got one too!  Noah refused to do it because he's too cool and I am obsessed with him having a badge from each park for his shadow box. So I happily did the booklet but was pretty mortified when she made all 3 of us stand on a podium and do the pledge in front of everyone. Noah owes me for that one.
We did a couple of different hikes through the rain forest. This area gets 142 inches of rain per year compared to Phoenix's 7. The Sitka spruces and hemlocks looked like furry animals because they had so much moss on them.


We then had a picnic and headed back to camp for some beach time. We ended our time here on the beach and then watching the sun set from our site. We will miss it here!  We have a long drive to crater lake national park tomorrow.

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