Misty Morning

WATERWORLD, THE SEQUEL: After record rainfall on Monday (2.41 inches in Seattle over the last 48 hours), imagine our surprise this morning when we awoke to blue skies over the Salish Lodge in Snoqualmie.

However, we'd seen the forecast and knew it wasn't going to last, so we got our collective acts together and got out to the falls a little after 8 a.m. We had the place to ourselves.

What was kind of ironic is that although it was clear skies and no rain, raging Snoqualmie Falls has its own weather pattern. There was a thick, drenching ground-level rainstorm produced by the water. We were absolutely soaked after just a couple of minutes, and it was absolutely hostile photo taking weather, so these photos were the best I could manage with the drenched Nikon.

In both photos, you can kind of seen the lodge perched up above the falls, with the sun emerging from behind it.

It was much more hospitable back inside.

HOME AGAIN, HOME AGAIN: After an excellent breakfast at Fall City Roadhouse & Inn, we headed back to Seattle. We did some Thanksgiving prep, including making some turkey cookies out of a hand-shaped cookie cutter.

I think Annabelle's mutant turkey is my favorite. :)

And tonight, we went out to dinner at Laredo's to celebrate Christian's half century mark.