Yesterday we took advantage of no school on Wednesdays and lovely weather, and went for a drive out the North Cascades highway. Which meant home-made raspberry chocolate chip ice cream at Cascadian Farm (oddly enough, they've gone from being a little organic farm stand to a division of General Mills which is the largest U.S. distributor of packaged ( Read more... )

Saturday we went to visit Mt St Helens, since it had been a while since we went.

Today the volcano cam started working again.

About half an hour ago, it went POP!

Seems to be mostly ash at this point. She was steaming quite nicely on Saturday, but of course we forgot to take the camera with us.