Mount Rainier & Gig Harbor

Mom came for her July visit, and we took off for our overnight adventure. The views on the drive to Mount Rainier are unbelievable and stopping in at basecamp to shop and watch all of the climbers preparing for their summit attempt was really great!! What totally sucked was our cabin...it was dark, stinky, rotting, had no view, was surrounded by piles of chopped wood and compost brush, and has probably slipped down the mountain and landed in the Nisqually River. We could not sleep there mostly based on the smell and lack of light...when darkness came, it would going to be a sensory deprivation tank! We decided to bail out and explore more of the mountain and head on home. We laughed the whole way home that we just threw our suitcases back in the vehicle and got out of there! We would have been better off sleeping outside!! The next day, we went to Gig Harbor and stopped in at some of the little shops and caught some nice views of a sunny day!