Ramsdell Family Blog

This past week we took a little trip to Stehekin, a small little community that is only reachable by boat. It is located off the north west side of Lake Chelan. The place has no cell phone service, no TV's, no computers! How would we ever survive? I was very hesitant about going but after George begging me I caved and decided to go. We went with Jake's best friends family. Amazingly we had a great time and did not miss our electronics at all. There is very limited transportation there, to get around we had to ride bikes that we rented there and we took a tour bus once to dinner.   Riding our bikes to Rainbow Falls and the bakery. It was a great ride, I only wanted to quit once.  Giant cinnamon rolls at the bakery  Stehekin's one room school house  Us with the Renschler's  Rainbow falls  Fishing  We rented to Polaris for a couple of hours, that I enjoyed driving around. People can arrive to Stehekin by Sea plane...

More of our summer adventures with my parents.  Here are our glass creations from our glass blowing.  We went crabbing on day and caught several crabs-only one was a keeper though. We were excited about cooking our first crab ever. It was yummy!  We also spent a day in Seattle at Pike's Place  Mom in line to get her favorite piroskys. We can't leave Pike's with out getting amazing flowers for so cheap-$15 for this giant bouquet.

Several years ago we went camping at Kayak Point, while we were there we saw people crabbing from the pier. Ever since then I have wanted to try crabbing. This year for my birthday my parents bought me a crab pot-yippeee!! Today we headed out to have a try at crabbing off the pier. We had a great time. We caught several crabs, although none of them were big enough to keep (one was just a tiny bit too small). We will go again in a couple of days and take my parents, hopefully this time we will get some we can bring home to cook.  Jake and I trying to untangle our rope.  Waiting  Our first crab pot-we were thrilled to have crabs in it.  See this one was almost big enough!  Jake decided to try clamming and he kept reaching down into the sand and pulling out big clams, but we can not keep those.

The last time my parents were here visiting we saw a a groupon for glass blowing, we all said we would like to do try it out. We made sure to schedule it into their visit this year. We got to pick out a project that we wanted to do and help assist a professional to make our project.  This was George's project.  Mom making her ornament.  Outside of the glass blowing place was all these great graffiti walls.  I think we all had a great time and we are anxiously awaiting picking up our completed items (apparently they have to cool off).  Jake left for Boy Scout camp this week-we miss him already.