03/29/14 It's Official Seattle has the wettest March in history and we are here for it!

Once again it is raining here . . . it has rained every day we have been here and most days before we got here. We heard on the weather forecast this morning that as of this morning Seattle is having their wettest March in history breaking a record set back in 1963. Of course we are here for it . . . who wouldn't want to be here for such a momentous occasion.
Today, the goal was to go and find a geocache in a park that supposedly had coordinates that were 80-90' off. We thought when we left the hotel that this was not going to be any fun because it was raining fairly hard but by the time we drove to Karen's the rain had let up for a few minutes and we decided to go for it.  My mistake was not taking the camera with me because the trails were muddy and the dogs were muddy but we had a nice "walk in the woods" and found the cache besides. We went back to Karen's and she made lunch . . .a fabulous spinach salad with bacon, goat cheese and dried cranberries. So healthy . . .well maybe not the bacon part but everything is better with bacon.
We decided to go back to the hotel to work on some research for dinner places, and write some logs while Karen was doing some things she needed to do. We planned to meet up around 6:00pm  I found a newly opened brewpub within 5 miles of the hotel  . . .Diamond Knot Brewpub at Mount Lake Terrace.

The food was good. Al and Karen enjoyed the beers and we bought one to take to Georgia.

Spooky was snuggling up to Al in the back seat of the van.

Last picture of the day  is a Karen and Mom selfie









 The 7 National Parks part of our blog title should be amended to 5 National Parks. New snow falls in the area of Crater Lake and Lassen Volcanic will prevent us from visiting those parks. We made some changes to our itinerary and will have to come back to the West Coast again.

Tomorrow we begin the trip home with a stop in Oregon to see the Spruce Goose.