Nothing but Blue Skies (Aug 2)

Not much exciting today. We both had a great night's sleep at the hotel. While we got up and ready we watched the Olympics, worked on our game plan for the next few days, packed up and headed out for lunch at Jack in the Box. Today we are working our way to Olympic National Park. Washington has some amazing scenery. So amazing that Nate has had me develop a new skill of hanging out the car window going 65 miles an hour and getting a decent shot. Like this...  

This is what it looks like going the other way.

We got caught in Seattle rush hour traffic but we did get to drive in the HOV lane. Garmin played a nasty trick on us and included taking the ferry as part of it's instructions. We drove up to the ferry in it's directions. We were confused and said, “Is this right?” I hopped out and talked with a crossing guard and found out that we did indeed need to take the ferry. She told us this ferry was full and the next one was at 7:40. She gave us directions to the ticket booth but there was a detour so we had trouble finding it. Eventually everything worked out and we drove onto the ferry, turned off the car, and walked up to the observation deck. It was freezing so I had to go back to the car to get a jacket. But all things considered it was fun to explore the ship. Most of the people were obviously locals, they stayed in their cars playing on the smart phones, taking a nap, or tweezing their chin. There was even one guy who had a lawn chair with him and set it out at the back of the ship to read. Besides our license plate, we must have stuck out like a sore thumb with the smile of excitement on my face. We followed the line of cars off the ferry and stopped at a grocery store for some fresh apples and peaches. We made it into the park after dark but easily found ourselves a campsite and pitched the tent. I was happy that they had flush-able toilets.