Baker Family Vacation

Well, it's been a week since the Leon Baker family left for their family vacation across Southern washington and into Oregon. On Wednesday, May 27, we all left Moses Lake to make our way to White Salmon, Washington, a town with very few people in it. (For those of you on the Forsberg side, it's about like the city of Crouch, ID. It's the same kind of mountainy tourist feel too.) Anyways, it's right on the Southern border of Washington, across the border from Mt. Hood, Oregon. Well, we took our sweet time getting there. Jenna did ok on that part of the road trip.









That night we spent the night at the Inn of the White Salmon (shown above) which had a beautiful view of Mt. Hood (also shown). We had lots of fun walking around and looking in all the little shops there.



The next day was the peak of fun on our trip: Whitewater rafting!!! For any of you who have never tried for whatever reason, be it you're scared or just haven't wanted to try, DO IT!!!!

It was so much fun I could hardly stand it. And we didnt' even go very long. Our trip was only 2 hours long, about 7 miles. And some of it was pretty still, too, but the rapids were well worth it. We all had so much fun.

Now don't start off scared just because our suits make us look absolutely ridiculous!!! Once you're in the water, no one even sees them.

Here are a couple of shots taken at our first Class IV rapid (James and I are the first two on the right front, very front of photo):

If you're wondering where we went, we are really there. We're just 2 feet under the water!!!!!! It was crazy!!!! It's really not as bad as it looks in these pictures. I didn't believe our guide when he said we'd gone 2 feet under. I knew I'd gotten wet, but not that wet.