Labor Day Weekend Fun

Since we had 3 whole days without any major plans over Labor Day Weekend, we each picked one family activity and one meal. It was actually a pretty fun and action packed! Can you guess what we each picked? What we ended up doing:

- Hike to Mt Fremont Tower in Rainier National Park

- Cat Cafe

- Crystal hunting/mining

- Dutch Baby

- TJ's orange chicken

- Szechuan fish in chili sause

- Banh Mi Sandwiches

If you noticed that there was actually only THREE activities listed, you have a sharp eye! Scott wanted to do a family bike ride but it was negotiated away because he tacked on a few extra miles to the hike. No worries, he still got a solo bike ride in.

Family photo on our hike to Rainier. My choice!

Petting cats at the Neko Cat Cafe. Evie's choice!

Diving into the chilly lake to check something under the boat. No one's choice!

Banh Mi. Evie's choice

Crepe's! No one's choice but delicious anyway. Thanks Scott!

The crystals we found while crystal hunting. Nora's choice!

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