Originally posted: 2011-11-29

Wanna hear a scary story?  We’re leaving tomorrow and haven’t even started packing yet!

There’s so much to do, and time is running out.  As many of you already know, the announcements won’t arrive until after we leave.  So we’ll be posting everything here, and will mail out the announcements once we return.

The picture above was taken just south of Mount St. Helens in the Ape Cave, the longest continuous lava tube in the continental United States.  Very dark, and a little cold.  We hiked the whole thing, and stopped along the way for a few fun pics (more pictures later).