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today, b and i drove about 30 minutes or so to snoqualmie falls. luckily for b, as he put it, he had reneedar with him. upon driving out, b seemed about every required turn he needed to make, and if it wasn’t for me we would still be trying to find our way to the falls. to start out from our place he ended for 5 north instead of 5 south to i-90. after quickly pointing this out we decided to take a slight detour to b’s favorite coffee shop, peet’s, for a morning treat. from there he almost missed the on-ramp to i-5 from peet’s, the exit for snoqualmie falls, paying attention to lane changes and lastly driving completely past the falls park entrance. usually b is a terrific navigator. today, his internal compass was a bit off.

upon arriving at the falls it’s a very short walk to the top viewing deck. the falls are gorgeous. it’s a 268 foot drop. with the rain we had this week, the water flow was moderately heavy. we plan to go back in the spring when the water flow is heavy from all the melting snow. from there we hiked the very steep 1/2 trail down to the base and back up. after the falls we went to the nearby railroad museum, took a train ride and then drove up to north bend for a very late lunch/early dinner at a diner. mount si looked extremely mysterious today with the clouds and fog. overall, it was a great day with a short 20 minute rain shower while we were at the base of the falls.

today was a bad camera day, the batteries unfortunately were not fully charged beforehand, so we only got a few good shots in. b did get a great hdr shot of the falls shown below. we plan on returning soon with our future seattle visitors. we will make sure the batteries our charged and post more then.