Hold the Fort!
Trip Start
Jul 08, 2006
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Trip End
Sep 03, 2006
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Pt Defiance Park, Washington
Sunday, September 3, 2006
Matt finally got up and showered. Then he decided he wanted to try on all the new clothes from yesterday. "I might want to wear some of them," he said. I sit relaxed, watching the train tracks outside the window. Yep, he liked the new old-worn-out looking jeans and pronounced himself Ready To Go.
Pt Defiance Park. I drove past the Zoo, pointing out to Matt just where Andrew and Sam and I had been the week before. There's the big tree too, and notice the fire hydrants spaced out in all these trees. We kept driving, there's a replica of an early logging camp. But it's the fort we want to see. Ft Nisqually, where so much of Washington settlement began.
Not too crowded yet, we pay the fee and start to check it out. Inside the old-timey store, we learn about the fur traders, the Hudson Bay Company, the way of life back then. Children's toys, musical instruments, entertainment, food, clothing, and the all-important security issues. Same things we think about today! In the gift shop, we study all the trinkets there. I settled on an orangey-apricot bar of soap, with a twine-ribbon bow. Matt chose a bag of marbles, hey, that's what your great-grandpas used to play with, I said.
