We spent the day today exploring the west side of Puget Sound. The trip was around 120 miles of great scenery, including the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, lunch in the Norwegian immigrant town of Poulsbo, a two-hour hike through the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island, and finally a ferry ride across Elliot Bay back to Seattle.
Normally we would post lots of photos...but the battery in the camera decided to die as soon as we left home this morning. @(#&$@#!
The Bloedel Reserve is a nature preserve--formerly a private estate--that is now open to the public. The trees and gardens there were incredibly beautiful, even moreso because we got our first good dose of sunshine today for the first time in several weeks. The moss garden and the Japanese zen garden were really fun to explore. Nora had a good time riding in the carrier on my back and touching the tree branches while we walked.
The highlight for Nora was seeing the swans and ducks in the pond. It didn't take her long before she started saying her favorite new word: duc-k (she hasn't quite been able to reduce it down to one syllable yet). This joins boo-k and gac-k (sock) as her new vocabulary for the week.
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