The Next Best Thing...

...to a real vacation is spending the day in Hansville.  We haven't been able to go up since Thanksgiving because our last scheduled trip was postponed due to the January weather.  This is the view out the living room window at Grandpa's house overlooking Admiralty Inlet.  I've been lucky enough to see harbor porpoises on a couple of occasions, and because the house is elevated, the bald eagles fly past at eye level.  We can watch huge container ships and cruise lines go through, or spot sea lions in the water, deer calmly walking through the yard on the other side of the house, or raccoons walking down the path next to the hedge.  At the lower left, you can just see a bit of the tram deck - the funicular takes us down the 85 foot bluff right to the beach for agate and shell hunting.

We always come back better for having been to Hansville.  Hope you all have a great weekend, too!