I forgot to mention that we were excited to meet up with our college friend, Brudvig, last Monday. He was visiting the area on vacation with his family, and we had a super time bumming around with them for the afternoon and visiting the aquarium, snacking on some ice cream,…

Somewhere along the course of our hike at Gooseberry, The Banana managed to take over her daddy's two dollar digital camera that I found at a thrift store last spring.  She was adamant about capturing images of the waterfalls from every possible angle.  Her enthusiasm inspired the big brother to…

Mr. SP was a busy, busy hiker on our trip to Gooseberry State Park.  We first hiked down to Agate Beach, where he climbed on rocks, and jumped between rocks.  He exchanged his tennis shoes for water shoes, and spent a long time hauling driftwood into the waves up to…