RV Trip - Day 6

We were in what feels like a primordial forest.  As you are walking through, it feels as though it wouldn't be overly surprising to have a Stegosaurus walk out from behind a tree.  Some of it is the ferns.  Some of it is the drooping moss everywhere.  Even the trees themselves seem to be ancient.  This phone box was outside the ranger station.  Obviously with the advent of cell phones, the phone itself isn't necessary anymore but the forest is taking it over!  This was the Hoh River Rainforest.  Now you have to have a pretty good self esteem for a river, to hang around with a name like Hoh, but this was a big enough river to pull it off.  Icy blue from glacial runoff and running quickly it is just beautiful running through the canyon.  We took a long time to do the walk to see the river.  It wasn't that long a walk but when we got to the river, the boys just played and played.  Initially they tried to build a set of stepping stones across the creek.  Then we moved to a spot where they could get across by wading and they explored the island together.  Then Evan came back and he and I split flint to make 'shavers' and 'knives' to cut through wood.  It was just lovely!

Then we drove through Forks.  Notably the setting for Twilight, we however found the best playground!  They had an area for all ages.  Our kids played for a while and then moved to the exercise area and competed for, well, everything; number of chin ups, number of jumps, number of... well you get the picture!  Levi won the chin up contest but only because he had lots of help!  It even broke through with sunshine while we were there and that had been a rare sight in the last few days.

Our night ended on the coastline.  We had a campsite right on the beach.  There was a steep goat path down to the beach and an outlook that went for miles!  We lost all the boys for several hours in the afternoon.  OK, not really lost but they were not up at the camp.  They found a tiny stream on the beach that they worked to dam.  It is a rare time that I can just let Levi go like that and be so secure in his whereabouts.  I knew that the three of them were unlikely to find something that was urgent and then mostly they could deal with things themselves.  At one point, Levi made the trek up to complain about something that one of his brothers had done.  My answer?  "Annoying brothers? Check!"  He went back to play.

After a while Evan came up to try to make fire with his fire starter.  It is great to have some quiet time with each of them.  It is a good way to do that!  Stick everyone in an RV and go from there!