We have arrived to our asphalt campground in Bellevue, Washington. The campground is definitely an asphalt jungle! No grass, but there are a few trees and bushes. It’s about fifteen minutes from Jared’s house and therefore very convenient.  It is also directly across the freeway from the Seattle Temple!  We’ll do a session there probably on Saturday morning. We drove past it this evening and it is a very beautiful building.

We decided to go to Mt. Rainier National Park on our way to Seattle today. That turned out to be a mistake. We drove to Yakima and then turned inland to drive to the park. A part of the road was closed and we were sent on a very, very long detour to go around where the road construction crews were blasting a hillside. It took about an hour to go around  large (and almost empty) reservoir and back to the main road. It was a twisty, narrow, windy road! When we finally got to the southeast entrance to the park, we found that all the roads in the park were closed. We drove all that way for nothing. That was quite disappointing. Despite that, we got to the campground at about 5 p.m.

We picked Jared and Arlene up for dinne and had a wonderful visit with them. We’re now back at the RV winding down for the night. We’ll pick them up at about 8 in the morning for our whale-watching-cruise-and-adventure. That should be a lot of fun.