I hiked about 11 miles yesterday and it made me tired.

Enjoy some pictures from the past week:


Aimee, Emo and I went to Teddy Bear Cove to see the sunset and check out tidepool animals.


Sally hurt her foot yet insisted on walking everywhere despite the doctor's orders.


Sally, Hannah and I took the car ferry over to Orcas Island.


We went hiking in the rain--it was pretty.

I am DONE with college!!!

Sally has been up visiting me for the past week and a bit, and we have been eating quite well. We made some delectable quinoa-egg breakfast burritos, scrumptuous grilled eggplant sandwiches, and at Hannah's birthday party ate cupcakes with three kinds of buttercream and chocolate ganache and poppyseed cake and brownies and irish soda bread. She hurt her foot before she came but refuses to heed the doctor's advice to stay off it and take 9 ibuprofin a day, and I kept coming home from school to find that she'd walked 2-4 miles. Really I can't blame her because Aimee's boyfriend was visiting.

Tristan made it down from British Columbia for a whirlwind visit (we went to get him at the border but the place we were meeting him was closed so we went into Canada although Sally didn't have her passport and the border dudes were so exasperated by our tale of confusion and woe that they just told us to scram wherever we wanted to go). On the way back, I dropped him off in Canada, then tried to come back into the U.S. but got stuck in construction traffic for 2 1/2 hours while Sally was drinking cup after cup of bottomless coffee in a sleazy cafe in podunk Blaine.

Sally and I went with Hannah to Orcas Island yesterday and today, and hiked around all day today although it was raining a ton, so I have a shitload of crappy photos of mossy trees and logs I'll get to sort through soon. Now I'm at my aunt and uncle's house in Issaquah debating whether or not to return to Bham tomorrow.

Dani and I went for a nice hike at Stimpson today despite the rain and wind (and apparently we're also on a flood warning?). The rain falling on the wetlands was entrancing. Then we checked out the Bayview Cemetery (?) that's right nearby because apparently we both enjoy checking out old cool statuary. We've decided to make a club dedicated to hiking, gravestone rubbings, reading, and themed potlachs--all we need is to figure out a main theme to explain why all those things belong together (because they should, duh), and then we're going to try to get funding from the AS.

Emo, Hannah, Mark, and I accompanied Emo's parents to a condo in Maple Falls this weekend, then Hannah and I went up skiing on Saturday while Emo and Mark snowshoed. Hannah was learning to telemark, so I hung out with her on the bunny slopes until lunch, then took off to the other side of the mountain (where the weather was decidedly crappy) and skied by myself for a few hours. When I got back to the lodge to return my rental skis (I forgot mine in CA), I found out that I had left the lights on in Emo's car all day, so the battery was dead. Her parents had just left, so they turned around to give us a jump. Excitement! Also, I learned 3 new board games.