Waking up early is such a chore for me. Anytime before 8:00 am is too early for me so it takes me a while to finally get out of bed. Well, I finally did, got ready and started our day. We drove North to Whidbey Island. Waited in line to pay and waited in line for the ferry, good thing I brought a book to read.
January 2019 I began reading Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson and it took me just under three months to finish it. I really enjoyed the book and definitely got my interests up in reading more of our American history. There's so many things to be proud of as an American and we also have to continue to grow and learn from past mistakes.
Reading this book also increased my vocabulary. There's a lot of words in this book that I hadn't heard before. I had to look them up so I could understand the sentence I was reading. This is why it took me so long to finish this book and not really because it's 586 pages long.
The beauty of the Puget Sound never seizes to amaze me ... every single time!
We have yet to see an orca pod swim by and we're constantly out by the Puget throughout the year. Maybe one day we'll get lucky.
Still pretty chilly in March. It's always windy when you're on the ferry.
We like to visit military forts. We like reading and learning about the history of each one and exposing Riley to our country's history is very important to us and should be to every proud American.
Beautiful views.
Fort Casey, Fort Worden and Fort Flagler together were known as the "Triangle of Fire," a trio of strategically placed fortifications defending the entrance to the Puget Sound at the turn of the 20th Century.
Constructed in the late 1800s, Fort Casey was equipped for defense and used as a training facility up to the mid-1940s. The fort houses a pair of rare 10-inch disappearing guns. While the guns were the height of technology in the early 1900s, improvements in warships and the advent of airplanes soon rendered them obsolete. Two additional 3-inch mounted guns are also on display in their original emplacements. You can explore these batteries to your heart’s content.
Riley is always asking his dad to play some kind of game. What better game to play than tag when there's large grassy areas.
As we were walking towards the lighthouse we came across three deer grazing. So cute!
Pretty
The store in the lighthouse had this kitty tapestry which I thought was precious and relatable to how I choose to tackle my household chores. I never tackle more than two chores a day. This way I have something to do each day.
Every good and perfect moment is a gift to you from God.
