Silver Falls Retreat Part 5

There was a blue sky and filtered sun for the trip home. Leaving the park was a little sad, but I wanted to get home, too. So, I drove much closer to the speed limit, this time. I made good time and with only one stop it took around three and a half hours to make it to Olympia. However, there was a bad, bad accident in Fife that was blocking two lanes. It took me about an hour and forty minutes to go around 5 miles. It was only that quick because I followed many other cars off the freeway and onto Highway 99 and then back onto I-5 after the accident. This went well enough and I arrived home almost 6 hours after I left the park, safe and sound. My husband called me just before I hit the traffic, and told me that he was going to evening service at church with his dad. Since he was not home, yet, I took some time to unpack, finishing much more quickly than I expected! After that, I set to work updating my stash and project on Ravelry, until he arrived.

Going to Portland

Another enabling thing that I found on Ravelry: the Seattle to Portland Yarn Train group. I have enlisted a friend to go with me on January 24th. We are going to take the bus from the Transit Center near my house to downtown, where we will meet up with many, many other Seattle area knitters for the 3 hour train ride to Portland, OR. Once there, we are going to visit a couple of yarn stores and a really cool bookstore. After we’ve shopped our to our hearts desire, we will board the train back to Seattle for another 3 hours of dedicated knitting time. Both my friend and I are excited to go. She said that she was hoping it was last weekend (when I was talking to her on the phone Saturday morning) as she wanted to be there instead of doing house cleaning. :) We will be leaving my house just before 6 AM and expect to get back around 11 PM. It’s going to be GREAT!