On top of old Mount Rainier...

Or Mount Renoir as Holly called it. We left Seattle this morning, put on some good tunes, and were rolling along on our merry way. We listened to Nealy's Ultimate Dance Mix to get us started, which it definitely did. We had some 80s tunes on Ben's "The Ronald Reagan Years: Songs from the Oval Office." Holly's friend Kate's co-worker Angie sent along a good mix. Then we did Jamie's dad's mix, complete with accompanying entertaining story about our travels. Holly enjoyed the story (not included with the cd, but just an added bonus I told her) about how when Bob and I got to Colorado when he was moving there he began singing Judy Collins' Colorado (or I guess it's called The Blizzard). We listened to Laura's cd, our third student cd of the day, and then Leah's Tangled Memories in which we had to come up with guesses for what memories Leah attaches to each one of the songs. She provided cards for us to write our answers, and we get to hear the real stories sometime in the future when we get together. Then we went with Hayley's cd, our fourth student cd of the day. It had some good interesting stuff on there. We enjoyed singing along to White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes.

So today we made it to Mount Rainier! After spending a few hours there (Holly will explain the exact reasons why), we journeyed to Yakima, Washington (again, check Holly's explanation). Our final destination of the day was this lovely Holiday Inn Express in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. We had dinner based on a recommendation from a co-worker of PJ (one of our hosts in Portland) whose parents live here, and then watched some crazy lightning over the lake while we ate a giant sundae for dessert. Tomorrow it's on to Project Vote Smart in Montana. And we have to give back that extra hour that Oregon gave us last week. Hmph.