Weekend Trip to Blaine, WA

We took the weekend and went to Blaine. We missed the ferry by four cars, but it actually turned out just fine. We ended up being the first car on the next ferry so we got a front row seat as the ferry went bouncing across the Sound. The windshield got sprayed a few times by the water coming on board.

We continued on our journey to Stanwood, which is north of Everett. We went to Warm Beach
where they have a huge Christmas light display to see. The advertise 1,200,000 lights... sounds about right!

Eleeyse got to ride a pony, and pet a goat, sheep and rabbit at the petting zoo.

If it weren't so wet, rainy and windy it would probably have been more fun and we could have stayed longer. We did have tickets for a play so we did get to go inside and warm up for an hour.

On to Blaine. It was very cold (in the high 20's) and windy (0 degress with the wind chill). Saturday we tried to venture out on foot around the resort but it was just too cold. We hopped in the car instead to do some exploring. We found this Bald Eagle nest pretty soon after we left. We found this neat Orca sculpture at a park right by the US/Canada border.

Sunday morning we got a very early wake up call. At around 4am the fire alarm went off. We were not told it was a false alarm till after we got all bundled up and carried Eleeyse down 4 flights of staris. Here is the Fire Truck outside the office looking down from our deck.