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Today Benoit and I went hiking out past North Bend, at Olallie State Park or whatever. I figured it sounded like a fairly nearby, fairly easy hike. It was neither, but that's okay.

We stopped at Uwajimaya on the way out to get lunch at Thai Spice, which was good, and then rode out I-90 to the park. There was no real ranger station, nor could we find a decent map of the trails, but somehow we figured out how to get to the Twin Falls trail. From the website it had sounded like a pretty easy hike, but it was actually fairly long and had a lot of up and downhill stuff, and took several hours.

The waterfall was pretty neat, though.

After that we came back here, showered and changed, and then went swing dancing!!! Wheeeeeeee. We went to the Century Ballroom, which I had never been to. It is scary and crowded, but overall the crowd seemed pretty good, a lot less like Wightman with all the skeezy old guys but contrariwise, more like everyone was several years younger than us. Benoit made me go dance with a bunch of strangers and so I did, and it was fun, except, like I said, the super-crowded floor made me pretty terrified to really swing or spin out or anything. Still, it was fun, and it is good to get back into the swing of things.

Oh, and I wore a skirt. We even took a picture or two as proof.

I walked back into the apartment dancing around and singing, "I feel sweaty... oh so sweaty... I feel sweaty, and skanky, and gross!"
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Today [personal profile] eub, [profile] mh75, [profile] bhudson and I went to Mount Rainier and hiked all day through the Paradise trails. We saw pretty flowers, huge trees, uppity chipmunks, and occasionally, through the fog, the top of the mountain. I am sure Eli will post pictures at some point -- I took some too, but most of mine were probably not as good as his, although I did get a shot of said uppity chipmunk trying to get into our bags, which was cute. I didn't see any marmots (the others did when they went up a final hill without me), but we did see a lot of deer. They flap their ears! Flap-flap, flap-flap. It's very cute. All the animals on the trail seemed extremely tame, which I suppose isn't that unexpected.

I saw a lot of landforms and plants that reminded me of dragons when we did the Grove of the Patriarchs trail, so "It's a dragon!" sort of became my cheer for the day.

My legs ache, but it was a good day. Afterwards Eli and Benoit and I went to Taste of India and caught up on gossip.

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