Orcas Island weekend

I didn't bring the connector to Orcas to take the photos off my camera, so here's the rest of the post about our Orcas Island weekend:

We arrived late Thursday afternoon to a cottage we rented right across from Crescent Beach, only a block or so outside of Eastsound, which is the main town on the island. The location was great and the cottage was darling - it's a remodeled oyster shack but you couldn't tell because it was done up really well.

Our cottage

The cottage backs up against a reserve so it was very pretty and private.

Living room view

I love this dining room, with it's "antique" table and oyster shell chandelier.

Crescent beach at low tide

They found a cave!

The weather was really windy and it rained on us quite a bit so we were limited to what we could do. We were able to do a little hiking, walked over to the new Island Hoppin' brewery, and had a fun picnic in the yard. We also did lots of snuggling in the house!

All geared up for the weather.

It was WINDY up at the top of Mount Constitution!

Moss wall on our hike

Waterfall hike. Good thing this was only 0.2 miles from the car, haha.

Morning cartoon snuggle time

More snuggles while Daddy does work.

Playing with puzzles.

Basking in the warm sunshine during our lunch picnic.

If you want to see more of our pics, here's the link to our Picasa album:

https://plus.google.com/photos/117668175145780637148/albums/6073497514523542913?authkey=CPHdhZvDu7b1Ng

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