The Russell Family : A rainy week in Forks

Trent has dreamed about fishing on the Olympic Peninsula since...forever. We are only a few hours drive from it now, so he planned a fishing trip with our friend Mike from Utah. Mike was our real estate agent, and the day we were closing on our house they found out that they both love fishing. They've gone on many fishing trips since. Mike and his wife Chelsea flew up with their two little girls, Roslyn and Isla, and we drove up to Forks, Washington. The guys had planned on fishing for two days while the wives hiked with the kids. We have had a very rainy winter and early spring, and the rivers are full of water and moving very quickly. Trent and Mike were really worried that they wouldn't be able to fish at all. Luckily they were able to go out; it was less than ideal conditions but they made the best of it and Trent even caught a fish!

Hiking with all of our little people. They did pretty well for how far we went. We hiked to Second Beach, which is in the La Push area. It's an out and back hike to the beach. On the way in all of the kids loved it, they crawled in all of the trees and had a great time.

This is Second Beach. We couldn't get across all of the driftwood to actually walk on the beach, so we just looked at it from the trail.

As soon as we turned around to hike back, all three kids decided to have a melt down. We did lots of carrying and coaxing to get them back to the car. Their timing was impeccable.

Even though it rained (the whole time, downpour) we just put jackets on the kids and went to the beach anyway. That's what you do in the Pacific Northwest!! This is First Beach (all very creatively named) on the La Push reservation. It is where the Sol Duc river empties into the Pacific Ocean. We saw two sea lions and a few bald eagles.