My mother came up from Florida for my birthday and the 4th of July, so I took the first week off I've had in quite some time. Of course we started in Seattle and got her some "real" coffee - and she also got to meet bigfoot while she was there.

Then off to Rattlesnake Ridge - you have to admire someone who is afraid of flying, heights and snakes that at 70 years old flies to Seattle to hike 2 miles up a mountain named after a poisonous reptile!

Then we all piled in the car to the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State, where we first stopped at a bird sanctuary.

From there it was on to Ocean Shores and the beach, albeit a little colder than the Florida beaches she left. She keeps running into bigfoot up here - this one had a definite beach flair...

Then off to Forks, Washington, where there was some film or other about vampires - an eerie place until the sun came out...

We stopped at a rain forest or two...

Then off to Deer Point, up 6,000 feet where you can see, well, basically everything!

After all the mountains and forests, I think she's pretty worn out. She's been from the West coast of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the tip of the Pacific Northwest and the Strait of Juan De Fuca in just a week!