Fangs for Coming

So this weekend Big D and I went to the Oympics - in Washington, not China. "Fangs for Coming" was the exit sign as we left Forks, WA where we stayed....doesn't make sense right? Well apparantly there's some huge book by the name of "Twilight" that has brought major tourism to Forks. It's a romance about vampires and Forks was picked as a good vampire town and they are stinking proud of it. And there were no signs of The Coreys so I think the vampires are safe...for now.

The first night we took a trail down to the beach. This tree was pretty wicked and I really wanted to sit in it. On our way back there were guys sitting on my branches! I was nice though, I didn't even ask for a tree toll...they're lucky.
This is my favorite part of taking a trail to the beach. Right here is when we started to hear the roar of the ocean as we hiked down, down and more down. Look how green and lush everything is!
We were a bit early for the sunset so Big D and I took some very reflecting pictures of each other. We ended up sitting on the big part of the log that's in front of me to watch the sunset which was no doubt the best seat in the house. It's hard to tell in the picture but we were directly left of the Hole In The Wall. Watching the waves crash through that hole was pretty stinking awesome.
Here's Big D's reflective picture looking at one of the sea stacks. There are two unusual things in this pic: 1. Big D's has nails. 2. Big D has color on those nails. I'm convinced this change has to do with Ben...and I asked her about it but I'll keep her remark private. It was pretty funny though. So you should ask her.

So after the sunset Big D and I headed to this small, old cemetary to find a geocache. I had this travel bug called "Zack's Little Devil" that wanted to go hide in scary places so this seemed fitting. I could barely tell what graves I was stepping on. Is that bad luck to step on graves? I have nothing to lose at this point.

Big D made a good point: We were both very happy to see there was not a floating head above this gravestone after we took the picture.

We found another geocache first thing the next morning. Look how stinking huge this geocache is! This may be the biggest one..I dunno. I like to always think that I've seen bigger...

Geocaching is so clever - I love that they took the time out to paint this bucket and hang it from this tree.

Next we headed to Da Hoh Rain Forest and took a little hike led by this ranger - he taught us lotsa interesting stuff that I'm going to forget in a few days. Except for the importance of fungi - fungi makes the world go round I found out.

Ranger Darrell couldn't explain why the trees on the Washington Coast have Elephantitis though. Doesn't this look painful? Tons of trees look like this.

Big D and I love hiking, we love forests and we certainly love Da Hoh Rainforest but we couldn't wait to get back to the ocean that day....

Again - my favorite part of hiking down to the ocean: The first glimpse of the water and the roar of the ocean. Big D and I had soup and beer (good combo I know) before we did this short hike so we ran ALL the way back up the hill on the way back to earn it. *burp*

I love sea stacks! The seastack to the left was stinking awesome. I was drawn to its holes (no perv comments please) and had to go jump into one when the waves weren't coming. Big D took good pics but I'm going to just make you have your own visual in your head.

Big D and I frolicked on the Ruby Beach for quite a while. I think it's called Ruby Beach because when the waves descend it causes the rocks to make the sound of a rainmaker as they roll over each other. There was a river that ran into the ocean and Big D and I had skipping rock competitions. I felt really bad for her at first because I was schooling her - we could hear the bell ring and everything. But then true Klavano greatness kicked in and she won the competition of who can skip the rock to the shore. It was fun. Trust me. Had to be there.

We slowly made our way back to homebase to watch the sunset but thought we'd have time to stop and see THE BIG CEDAR TREE (I've seen bigger...like I said). We saw it on the Atlas and there were all these signs about this huge cedar. Big D is not only a tree hugger but she's also a climber of all things.

Suffice to say we took WAY too long making our way back to see the sunset by homebase and Big D did *not* want to miss it. I stayed silent as she sped down highways, took curves like her Nissan was on rails and silently hoped no deer would hop out in front of her speeding vehicle. Well, we missed the sunset by just a few minutes - she parked her car and ran to take this picture. She still was catching a beautiful pic right? That's another sea stack in the distance. I really do have a new crush on sea stacks - they just add a certain something.

And one last reflecting look into the ocean before we say goodbye. Big D informed me that anytime someone makes a life changing decision in the movies the wind blows thru their hair. As I stood there all I could think of was vampires and seastack holes. What does that mean?

"MINE!"