Bad attempt at a pun, I know.  I apologize.

Anyways, this weekend we made an attempt to take advantage of the good weather while it lasts.  People are neurotic about the weather turning bad here.  Now that September has hit, you can hear feverish whispers and neurotic plan-making everywhere you go as Seattlites try and suck up every bit of sunshine they can get there hands on.  So on Sunday, we escaped the city, and went to Snoqualmie Falls:

The falls are only 30 minutes outside the city, but the drive still gave Mike a chance to drive a bit on “fun” (read: not congested and poorly laid out like the ones around us) roads for once.  He was happy.  However, he was even happier once we parked and went to grab some snacks, where he was ridiculously delighted to find out about the existence of this:

Seriously, he talked for ten minutes about how awesome it was that Nestle had finally solved the Crunch to ice cream ratio by embedding the ice cream with little Crunch balls.  I’ve never heard him so excited about dessert.  This was my soundtrack as we made our way down the path to the falls.

He then got excited again when he saw this sign:

Ugh.  Only bad people don’t like dogs.

The trail was gorgeous.  It was also only a mile round trip so Mike didn’t really complain about having to walk too much.  I powered on ahead and he carried the camera, so we have about 30 pictures that basically look like this:

Yes, I’m totally rocking the “jacket tied around my waist” look.  I thought it would be colder.

Right before you get to the falls, you pass an ominous concrete building that is totally fenced off and filledwith mysterious machines:

Mike thought it was where they kept the Velociraptors.  It is actually used to harvest energy from the falls, but his idea was far more entertaining.

Finally, we got to the official end of the trail, where we saw tubers!

Maybe THIS is where Indian River really is!

When the trail ends, you can’t actually see the waterfall.  So we did what everybody else was doing- climb OVER the observation deck and scale down to the rocky riverbank, trying desperately not to fall and break a bone (at least I felt like this, there were toddlers who were making the climb without a care in the world), and walk over rocks for another quarter of a mile.  Along the way, you see more of the river:

You can also climb out onto random rocks in the water, which Mike immediately did:

Finally, you get to see the actual falls.  They are really breathtaking:

We tried to get somebody to take a picture of us with the waterfall in the background (or rather, I tried to get somebody to take a picture of us and Mike tried to stop me), but they didn’t really get the point of this request:

At least they were nice enough to take a picture of us.  As usual, it’s a terrible picture of me.  I mostly chose to include it because I love that Mike wore black socks with shorts and tennis shoes.  Made.my.day.