Washington - Oct. 2010 - part 1

Our family just got home from an 11-day trip. We hopped on a train and headed west to visit my oldest sister & her husband. We treated ourselves to a family room for the ride out there. Bug was so excited when she heard that she'd be sleeping in an upper bunk ON THE TRAIN. Just before we left, she spotted this eye mask at Old Navy. It makes for a funny pic, but she ended up not really using it.


There was a very shallow closet in the room, but Bug was able to squeeze herself in and shut the door.

Here she is, relaxing with her dad in our room. We were on the lower-level of the train and had a window on each side.

Antonio was one of the servers in the dining car. He had seen Bug's tiger and joined us in the observation car to discuss wild cats. We later found out that he'd be getting on the train heading east the same day as we were.

Bug & her dad checking things out during one of our longer stops.


After arriving at our destination, we headed to the house to drop off our bags. Bug ran to this tree and did this:
We then took her to a nearby park to burn off some energy.

I don't know how many times she went across these, but it was a lot!
We wore her out!