The next day we drove to Mt St Helens. It is amazing to see how much destruction is still so obvious from the eruption thirty some years ago. All the trees have their stumps in the ground but the tops are just blasted apart. We got up there and watched the videos of the eruption and then did a little walk around to different viewing areas. It was really fun but Levi's best part was the big field of ice/snow/dirt that was in the parking lot at the top. He would have been happy to through snowballs at everyone for hours! Lucky for us, the park was going to close so we had to pull him away from it all!
Levi didn't mind getting in the RV though! He loved the whole idea! Actually I think he mostly loved the idea that he could get up and go to the bathroom while we were driving. He must have gone about times on each of our drives! He loved being able to sit next to different people at different times as well. The lure of the 'older brother' was a strong one. He would watch them play on the computer or they would all play cards. He had the DVD player to watch as well so it would have been hard to get too bored in any of the driving spells.
The route had been pretty well picked out, but where we would stay each night was always a choice that was made along the way to take the boys stamina into account. At night we would play games and Levi's bedtime was a very flexible thing. It actually serves my purpose to hold him in 'Australia' time somewhat. It means that he actually sleeps in mornings rather than getting up at the crack of dawn as he usually does at home. Once he starts getting up earlier, his bedtime will get correspondingly earlier. At the moment though, he is tracking more like a teenager!
Levi and Evan were given a Lego Space Needle to build before we went to Seattle. They built it together in the back of the RV. It is lovely watching the kids together!
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