Category: vacation
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Twilight marketing
The Olympic peninsula is trying to make the most of the Twilight series popularity. Forks, Port Angles and La Push all try to lure Twilight fans their way. The town of Forks celebrates Stephenie Meyer Day on the same day as Twilight’s Bella Swan’s birthday, Sept. 13.
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Hoh Rain Forest
We hiked through the Hoh rain forest in the Olympic National Park. This area of Washington gets about 12-14 feet of rain. Overall I thought the rain forest in Mt Rainier’s national park was more impressive than this one.
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Superbowl party
We had a Super Bowl party in Mexico with all the fellow Apple people.We were starving because the dinner we had earlier in the evening lacked asubstantial vegetarian option. I didn’t really care about the SuperBowl game but I heard there would be pizza and guacamole. Trying toget a pizza without meat was a challenge.…
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Ceiba del Mar
Joe and I spent 5 days in Mexico at a small and quiet resort calledCeiba del Mar. It was located halfway between Cancun and Playa delCarmen. The staff at the resort were absolutely attentive to our needswhile being very pleasant. There was even one employee who would spend15 minutes a day helping us use our…
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Denny’s for our Thanksgiving dinner
After leaving the water park exhausted we realized we were also starving. Nothing much is open Thanksgiving evening off the interstate except Denny’s so that is where we had our Thanksgiving celebration with Boca Burgers and mac n’ cheese. Monti added a bit of traditional Thanksgiving by getting mashed potatoes as her side item.
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MagiQuest at Great Wolf Lodge
Throughout the main areas of the hotel were kids running around wavingwands at anything and everything. It was absolutely killing Monti notbeing involved in whatever they were doing. We headed to the gift shopto see what it was all about. The game was called MagiQuest and itrequired the purchase of a wand and a game.…
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In the water park
Dahlia was pretty scared of all the slides except for the ones in the little kids area. Both girls agreed that the wave pool was their favorite. Monti went on every slide she could. Nothing was too scary for her. She even stood under the large bucket that drenches those below it every 5 minutes…
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Howlin Tornado
The signature water slide at the Great Wolf Lodge is called the Howlin’ Tornado. Up to 4 people go on a giant tube down a slide that has a significant drop before dumping you in the giant funnel shaped area. The raft travels up and down the sides like a skateboarder on a half-pipe ramp.…
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After a long drive
We left right after caroling practice on Wednesday for Great Wolf Lodge. It is only 82 miles from Issaquah but due to holiday traffic it took us over 4 hours to get there. Monti must have asked “When will we get there?” thirty times before Joe told her no more. Once there we were able…