Great time in Washington

We're having such a wonderful time here in Washington. We stayed at Best Western Hotel in downtown Edmonds. The weather was still cold but we got out and played at playgrounds anyway. We spent a lot of time at aunt Zona and uncle Bill's house. Aunt Zona brought out toys which belongs to our cousins when they were young and so many good library books for us. We spent almost every minutes playing with toys.

We had surprised birthday party with gifts. That was unexpected! We got to have second chocolate cake and blow four more candles. Our first birthday celebration was in Seaside. We were just leaving a camp ground at Crescent City , Ca. Daddy found a bakery shop in Cannon Beach which has a very good chocolate cake. The lady decorated our names on the cake for us and she sprinkled it with a lot of blue sparkles.

Anchalee is now quitting mommy's milk and Suwan is now quitting pacifier. We promised mom and day that we would quite them when we turned four and we did!

We spent a week in Coupeville in Whidbey Island. Mom picked a lot of mussels from the beach and we ate them all up. Daddy said that Penn Cove mussels are the most famous here. We saw how they grow them in the bay in front of our rented home. We were lucky to get to see boat race at the festival. Susan, Ben and Amy came to join us at the festival. We had BBQ salmon for lunch with clam chowder and fried bread. We even had our face and hand painted at kids' activity table. Get to visit the nicest playground ant Langley.

Carla, Kyle and Mckenzie came to spend a night with us at Coupeville. We enjoyed playing a hammock outside with Mckenzie. We like falling off the hammock and trying to claim back up.

Then Last Sunday we got to take a train from Edmonds to Seattle with Eric, Sean and Megan. We visited China town and had a great dim sum lunch. The waiting was too long but they said it worthed the wait. The we took a very long walk around town and then ended at the big Asian Store. It was a fun day but very tiring.

We had Spaggetti take out dinner with Aunt Zona and Uncle Bill the last day in Edmonds. We didn't want to leave them, but the trip has to go on.

June 3, 2010.
Today we are staying in KOA camp in Leavenworth, Washington. The cabin daddy rents is very nice and big with a kitchen. We have to provide our own bedding though. We're glad that we're not camping because it rains a lot. Yesterday it rained on and off, but we still visited a few places anyway. Down town Leavenworth is very nice. All decor up with German thyme. Daddy loves it. He took a lot of pictures for his book. We enjoyed the petting zoo and the aplets and cotles candy factory tour and testing in Cashmere, Washington.

Greeting from Eureka, California.

                                                       Anchalee, the younger twins at downtown Eureka
Hi all,

There 're so much to do and not much time to write.  It seems like we've been on the road so much and hardly have time to rest.  Thank goodness, today we had a little time off from the road.  We got to visit downtown Eureka, the ocean, the zoo and even had an afternoon at a nice warm indoor pool.  This pool is nice because it has a nice 1 foot depth area for little kids.  We enjoyed it a lot.  We had good a good Chinese buffet for lunch.  Tomorrow we'll be travel to redwood park to camp.  Hope we'll be able to take the cold.  Daddy said it'll be around 40's degrees at night.  We made it through at Disney World when it was around 40's, so we probably will get through this one.

                                                          Eureka harbor, California

                                                      The older twins, Suwan being shilly

Backtrack our trips from Florida to Texas

Egret grooming

Flamingo Amigo

Weeki Wachee Spring State Park, Crystal River, FL

April 2, 2010. Crystal River is a nice little town. We took a nice walk around the neighborhood. Daddy took us to see mermaid show at Weeki Wachee Spring State Park. It was amazingly fun! We took a boat tour in Spring water and saw some wild life animals.

At a park in Florida.

Manatee

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April 6, 2010 - Moving along a west coast of Florida and gulf of Mexico. We arrived at Port of St. Joe. It was not what daddy had expected. The town was very small. You will only find one and only grocery store there. What used to be a famous fishing town now has no fishing port left. I think that what daddy said. We had fun visit a beach in a state park though.

Suwan entertaining herself at a beach, Port St. Joe, Fl

Anchalee on a beach

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April 9, 2010 - Daddy and Mommy said they had the best Oyster in Carrabelle, Florida. We hated to leave Florida but we have many more things to look forward to. We're now entering Louisiana. It was strawberry season and we bought 3 boxes of strawberry of 3 bucks. They were really good. We visited Tabasco Factory and jungle garden. We saw many small gators in the pond in their natural environment. We also went to hot sauce festival and had many fun ride, but our most favorite one was a sac slide (?) where you slide down on top of a sac.

Everyone seemed enjoy cajun food including crawfish and all. Suwan surprised us with her big appetite for crawfish. Here people just pile the crawfish in a big tray and crack them all up at the table. It's sort of like eating blue crab I guess, except the banging part. Big Mess either way.

Visiting Center, Louisiana

Heritage Museum, Louisiana

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April 14 - Entering Texas passed Houston and El Paso. There were Beautiful wild flowers everywhere on highway- blue bonnet and Indian paint brush to name a few. We didn't recall much of Texas but most vividly about LBJ's ranch in Johnson City. The ranch was big and it was interesting to learn about LBJ and to see living farm. We enjoyed a gift shop in Johnson City because they had little shopping carts for us to push around. Mommy got some beef jerky and chili.

Downtown Houston, Texas

Roadside view, Texas

Hope you have fun with us while you here. We want you to see what we see as much possible. Next time we'll write about New Mexico. See you soon.

Greeting From Page, Arizona.

"Snow in April - 6000 feet up high in Navajo Nation, Window Rock, AZ. "

"Anchalee and Suwan at a Navajo Trading Post, Arizona"

We've been so busy traveling through different towns in past month and rarely had time to write. Part of it was from being so tired and another was from not having access to internet.

We are staying over one night at Lake Powell, Page, Arizona. We have pretty nice view of the lake, mountains and a golf course. We didn't quite get a good view of a sunset because of the cloud and a short period of sprinkle. It's almost freezing here at dinner time. We just had some snow last night when we were at Window Rock. We drove about 4 and a half hours to get to Page. It was really a nice drive. We got to see gradually changes in landscapes, from snowy pine mountains, silvery grass and stunted bushes in low plains to rocky mesas and reddish canyons. It was some fascinating journey.


Navajo Nation near Page, AZ

We would say we had pretty good day today. Lastly, we get to end our day with a nice warm bath and yummy Japanese food. Pretty cool ha.

Disney World's Fort Wilderness Camping Experience

It is time to say good bye to Disney World. We don't feel bad to live Disney World. In fact, we kept asking Daddy and Mommy when we will live for the hotel. Camping at Fort Wilderness at Disney World was fun. We spend 10 nights there and went through 2 big storms. We didn't really hear or feel any of it because we were so exhausted and slept through both storms. We spend most of our time visiting Magic Kingdom, twice at Epcot Center, once at Animal Kingdom and once at water park. We did't travel by car much around Disney. We usually took buses and boats When we wereat our camp we played out door all the time. There were birds, ducks, armadilloto who came around couple times. get to places. We rent a little cart that look like a golf cart for a day just to visit near by area around the camp. We went to a camp fire and watched Tinker Bell movie one night. We got to roasted some mashmellow for the second time.

About 2 nights ago, Suwan woke up and a middle of the night, sobbing with tear and saying that she would never have done that again. Mommy asked Suwan what she wouldn't do and Suwan told her that her mashmellow was burnt. It took Suwan awhile before she realized that was just a bad dream. What a nightmare!

We left Disney today for Crystal River which is on the west coast of Florida. It is only couple of hours drive from Disney. We walked around the neighborhood a little bit before dinner this evening. There are a lot of Manatee tours and fishing. We felt bad to hear on the news about a boy who got hit by a bus while riding his bike with his friend at fort Wilderness. The same camp we stayed and the same bus we rode. And then again, daddy said two monorails were crashed at Disney.

We hope you have fun looking at us having fun at Disney World. It was sure is a wonderful experiences for us. Thanks for visiting.

More Photos coming soon.