Weekending

Happy weekend end.

Sad. I had another great weekend.

Friday night I went to a Surprise party for my friend George (Lots of the same kinds as the camping trip). It was a wild success and was very fun.

Saturday, I got up at about ten, which is earlier than I maybe would have, had I not had hiking plans.

Skyline Divide was the plan.

Mark and Shona and I set out and drove for about 40 minutes in the direction of Mt. Baker.

Stopped at a friends house and picked up some snowshoes.

Set off up a gravel road that we had to follow for 13 miles to get to the trail head.

It was a pretty rough road.

Whit the snow line and that was fun. There was more and more snow the higher we went.

Then there started being snow on the road in some places.

Then there was about two feet of snow on the road and we couldn't drive any further.

*Family Portrait*

So we parked the car on a little pull out thing and, as Shona had the most appropriate footwear, Mark and I put on snowshoes.

We hiked up the road for a bit, snowshoed around and played in the snow.

It was great fun.

*Mark in the snow*

It was snowing the whole time we were there.

That was my first time seeing snow all year.

*Shona doing a cartwheel in the snow*

Afterwards, a bit soggy and damp, we went to Graham's for lunch.

Good day.

Sunday.

I had a weird sleeping in- stiff neck morning, went to the co-op to get eggs, and had an awesome egg sandwich.

I them met up with Mark and girlfriend Sue and we head down to Fairhaven for the Dirty Dan Day's Chowder Festival. We met up with Shona and Emiko and some other friends.

*Mark and Sue*

$10 to sample 17 different types of chowders from different restaurants and get a bowl of your favorite.

Lots of good food.

My favorite was the Pumpkin and Corn chowder from Avenue Bread but they ran out at the end, so I got a bowl of Skylark's clam chowder, my second favorite.

It was so sunny and there was good music.

The Gallus Brothers played for a good bit and I particularly liked them.

*The Gallus Brothers*

It was splendid to sit in the grass in the sun with my friends and chowder listening to bluegrass music.

Such a pleasent Sunday.

Tonight I made Banana Bread. 'Twas delicious.

Now, I've got a touch of math to do and them have to mentally prepare myself for the week ahead.