Last entry for our vacation

We went to church in the Fraser Ward in Prince George, BC. Over half of the people attending were visitors. The meetings were all very good and the people friendly.

We camped at the Sunset Campground on Green Lake near 70-Mile, BC. There was a glorious sunset. We saw buffaloe, deer, and goats.
Coming down the Fraser River gorge was beautiful. Hells Gate was an important trade route. We stopped and walked down to the Alexandra Bridge which is now abandoned.
On the last day of our vacation we started early (5:30) in order to get around the Tacoma/Olympia early morning traffic. We stopped at Mt. Saint Helens and drove up to the Johnston Ridge visitor center. We went on a hike first and saw lots of wild flowers and the valley far below with clouds below us.

The video at the visitor center had surround sound and was most impressive. On the wall they had stories told by survivors that were touching, especially Ronald and Venus who floated down the mud flow. She went under the mud five times but was finally rescued by Ronald who pulled her up on a log and they leaped on logs to safety.

We saw a small herd of elk on the road. I ran up the hill chasing them but they were long gone.

After the 1980 eruption Weyerhauser planted millions of doug fir and noble fir in the higher elevations, which will be harvested at age 45 in 15 more years. The unplanted blast zone is mostly barren thanks to environmentalists.

Our last stop is at Costco in Albany to get get an appointment to get our hearing checked. After two weeks of saying politely, “What did you say, dear?”