Snow Day

When all the stars fall into place and you get both a holiday and a sunny day on the same day, you spend it outside…

We spent MLK Day up at Mt St Helens. While the roads were a bit slick in the shade, it was a LONG way before we actually hit snow.

the view from the visitors’ center in Castle Rock

Will stopped to take pics at this great spot!

But eventually we got to the snow and enjoyed playing in the sunshine! Some of us wore only ski pants and t-shirts, it was so warm!!!

We finally made it to the snow!

They started out rolling snowballs down the hill…

Then they thought it looked like so much fun, they went down the hill, too!

All the playing and climbing makes one hungry. We drove up to Coldwater Lake for a bit of lunch.

Although it was a bit cold for swimming, we did have fun chucking rocks on the ice to see if it would break…

Looks like we couldn’t have gone swimming anyway…

 

 

 

this one broke through…

 

This one didn’t… but you could hear the thud echo all across the lake!

 

What a perfect way to spend the day! And we even got down off the mountain before dark!!!