Birthday Weekend

{July 23rd-25th}

We went away for my birthday to spend the weekend up in Oak Harbor. We had so much fun! The weather was awesome and the views were amazing! The weekend started off with a day at the spa for me! Erich spoiled me with a massage, manicure, and pedicure. Score! I was so happy. It was fun spending the morning being pampered. From there we headed up to Oak Harbor to enjoy a relaxing birthday weekend!

Deception Pass. One of the most beautiful places in Washington!

 We spent a good hour and a half here just staring. It was hard to leave!

He bet me he could jump up like this the whole way without stopping. And he did.

I have to say the views here were almost better than the ones in Hawaii. Almost.

That night we had dinner at a nice place right down the street from our hotel...the beach!

My pretty pedicure and manicure!

King of the beach.

24. Wow, I'm almost half way to 50!

Skippin' rocks.

Oak Harbor at sunset.

 Fancy chair at our hotel.

 On the boat in Anacortes ready to go whale watching in the San Juans! Swedish Fish on hand. 

 It was about a 3 hour boat right through the San Juans out to the coast to see the Orcas. It was a little gloomy but the boat ride was soo gorgeous! 

I wish these pictures did it a little more justice. You can kinda see the Olympic mountains in the bottom picture. It was awesome!

We tracked them down! There was a huge pod we came across. Probably a good 10-12 of them. There was one in particular that was humongous!
Its dorsal fin they said was probably about six feet. Six feet?! He was huge! 

This guy was "spy hopping" as they call it. Checking things out for the rest of the pod. We spent about an hour or so with the Orcas then headed inland for our 2 hour ride back.
We had so much fun on our mini vacation. Definitely one of our favorite things we've done!