The Fish

Yesterday we went to go watch the Salmon. See, where we live, the Salmon come every fall to spawn. It is quite the sight. These huge fish all swimming up the streams to spawn, and then to die. We saw our fair share of dead fish but saw lots of live ones too doing their spawning thing. 

We live right on the ocean, so these guys didn't really have far to go to get to their spawning grounds. In the spring we saw them release thousands of baby salmon in the creek by our house and now we get to see the grown ones come back to their home. Pretty cool!

Here are the kids checking out the ducks, and dead fish, on the ocean shore that the creek feeds into.

Here is one of the live Salmon. The girl's didn't want me to take  pictures of the dead ones, though we named one "no eyes" you can guess why.

I hardly get in front of the camera, which I am trying to change. Beaner has become quite the photographer and so she snapped this one for me!

When living on the West Coast, you need to be ok with rain, spiders, rain, more rain and slugs.

This is what Cici has been doing non stop for about a week now. Seriously non stop. At Ikea, in parking lots, at school, on the streets, in the house.

On the way back from the Salmon walk we past by the ice rink. We couldn't pass up the huge pile of snow. In fact, we raced home, had dinner and brought Paul back for a family snowball fight. All the fun of winter without the winter!