Leaving Seattle! 1/25/09

The view from our hotel in Seattle.

When we knew that we were going to Seattle for the conference, and that Nana & Dadat were willling to keep the girls for an entire week, I knew I had to find us some place to go near North Cascades Natl Park. We signed on for a "learn to cross country ski" package at Sun Mountain Lodge in Winthrop, WA. In the summer it is a two hours drive from Seattle to Winthrop through the mountains, but you have to take a longer, 5 hour route in the winter. It was about at this point, a couple of hours into the drive, that the washer fluid lines in our 4-Runner froze (they didn't unfreeze until we were nearly back in Seattle three days later); it made for some really interesting driving considering all of the salt on the roads.