San Juan Islands

Vacation #1....

San Juan Islands

(Islands off Washington State)

Some beautiful scenery from the Island

While watching the seals, Kristen found this sea-star...

it was huge and beautiful!

The beach outside our front porch....and the beautiful sunset

The mode of transportation between islands is a ferry...

Kaylie loved the Big Boat we got to ride every day but

in order to make sure you got on the ferry

you wanted, you needed to be there about an hour
before the departure and get in line.
To entertain Kaylie for that hour, she got to drive Uncle Dale's car...

she loved it!!!

Kaylie spent a good amount of time out front on the porch

moving patio furniture around...

she LOVED pushing this table all around..

it was pretty amazing how this entertained her for so long!

We even did some spur-of-the-moment off roading while we were there!!

We hiked to a fort with a beautiful view....

don't look now, but the baby bump- it is here!

Devin, Bubba, Mark, and Dale went crabbing while we were there.
They had a great time catching our (their) dinner!
I have to admit it was pretty fun to watch!!

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Above is the guys setting the traps,
the crab bait,
their first catch
(Kaylie, who ALWAYS wanted to be involved) :)
and a trap ready to go!
Below is the guys in their canoes dropping their traps,
and their catch.
I think all in all they caught about 32 adult-male crabs
(but sent some back because even they couldn't eat that much!)

Me and Kaylie at a Vinyard on the island..

since we couldn't taste the wine with the others,

we hung out together!

Devin and some of the salmon that he caught- yuck!