i had an exciting run in the forest this weekend. shelby‘s eric’s family has a cabin at wauna lake, near stevenson, washington. it’s a hidden lake – to get there, you turn into what looks like a driveway with a locked gate, but when you go through the gate you go up a hill for probably half a mile before arriving at a parking lot with a clubhouse and tennis courts and some covered docks. we took a little boat across the lake to the cabin, fortunately not capsizing, though it was not for the huge (and stinky) golden retriever’s lack of trying. friday night we went swimming, which was very pleasant. saturday i got up semi-early and went for a run on the pacific crest trail, which crosses the road up to the parking lot right by the locked gate where we came in. it was very pretty, though excessively hilly at one point, so i turned around and went back the other direction for a while. i didn’t see as many interesting animals as i had hoped – i suppose it could be because i was stomping around and panting loudly. i did see a garter snake who left quickly, and i was a wrecker of many happy spider homes.
i should have taken into account the fact that i had to climb a huge hill back home, though, and run a little less, because i am still slightly sore from the excessive hilliness of the whole production. my ankles hurt. i had to pause about every third step on the way back up the hill, but that turned out to be an ok thing because while paused i saw two bald eagles waaay up high. yay!
i want a lake cabin.
only a month left in eugene. i need to start freaking out about where i will live when i get back to seattle.
(song: “the el,” rhett miller. i am in love with rhett miller so much.)
yay!! i am sooo glad you came. it was so much fun having the whole weekend with you! and i’m very, very glad you had a good time.
1 month! you freak out about finding somewhere to live; i’ll start freaking out about you going away. =( =(
stuart ransom miller! (serial lady killer)
You know, I just realized something. When you, Evi, and Erin arrive back in Seattle, Seattleites will constitute a majority of the Nine (aka the Fellowship of MLK Weekend 2004)? (We should get matching tattoos.) You, E&E, Katos, and myself. Wow. Seattle rawks!
I guess that makes Becca the Ring-Bearer, then, since she’s engaged. =)
That weekend was so fun. We must get the Nine back together sometime so we can drink and be silly and be accosted by multiple strange men.
I am so so sad that you are leaving in a month and I have just been traveling around like a crazy woman instead of spending every minute with you. When i get back from Chicago on Tuesday can we start spending a lot of time together please, please?
yay, yes, we can do that. it’ll be fun! we can have girl nights. we shall go to brushfire! and we can teach shelby how to knit.
i guess if you are in chicago, it means you did not get my message and do not want to come to roma with me tonight.
I did get your message- I don’t leave until tomorrow morning but I got it too late, sadly…. I am not good at this home-phone land-line thing where you have an answering machine to check etc. I leave tomorrow morning at… some morning-type time. But I will be back a week from Tuesday and my cell is good in the meantime… :) Maybe this should have been an email instead of a comment but too late now…. Yay brushfire! Knitting! Et cetera!