Dear Family and Friends,
Thank you so much for visiting our registry page. We can't wait to see all of you in June. A special thanks goes to everyone who is honoring us by flying from out of state, and in one case all the way from England!
Right now our little 1940's house is full to the gills. In fact, we have so many things that we considered a "reverse registry" where you help us by taking something out of the house. Instead we've registered for our favorite thing in the world: outdoor adventure travel. To the right and at the bottom you can see photos from our last trip to Sequoia National Park, where we saw some of the world's oldest living things (Sequoia trees) and hiked to an Alpine lake 10,000 feet up. This time we're journeying to the Pacific Northwest, an adventure that will take us from urban Seattle to the volcano at Mount Saint Helens to Olympic National Park, which contains several of the world's only temperate rainforests. When we are old and grey (or in Emma's case, old and red), we'll sit on the porch and reminisce about this wonderful trip.
In the next section you can read about our honeymoon plans in more detail, and you can click the links for photos and information about each stop. The third section contains the online registry and, at the bottom, the "give gift" option. The last section contains photos from our Sequoia trip.
Thank you again for adding to our happiness!
- Alex and Emma
We're going to Pacific Northwest!
In the secret government hangars of remote Ontario Airport, we abscond with a vintage 1907 biplane owned by Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions. Alex will attempt a water-landing just outside of <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Portland_(Oregon)">Portland, Oregon</a>, where we plan to purchase our pack llamas and head up the <a href="http://www.crgva.org/">Columbia River Gorge</a>. By evening of the following day, we hope to enter the <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/recreation/ape-cave/hiking-the-cave.shtml">Ape Cave</a> at the foot of <a href="http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/msh/">Mount St. Helens</a> in time to obtain a favorable message from the Ancient Oracle. At <a href="http://www.nps.gov/mora/">Mount Rainier</a> we join forces with an excavation crew who look remarkably like low-paid movie extras. As legend has it, the Key of the Golden Cockatiel is to be found on the uppermost ledge behind the aqueous curtains of <a href="http://www.snoqualmiefalls.com/">Snoqualmie Falls</a>. After pilfering the key, we undertake a swashbuckling mid-air refueling above <a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Seattle">Seattle, Washington</a>, in which Emma walks on the wings of the plane, and we take a daring shortcut across <a href="http://www.visitkitsap.com/search/things_to_do.asp?ID=48&act=search_results">Kitsap Peninsula</a> and enter the northern reaches of <a href="http://www.nps.gov/olym/photosmultimedia/index.htm">Olympic National Park</a>. Our historic trek begins at <a href="http://lakecrescentlodge.com/">Crescent Lake</a> and, if we manage to elude the jaws of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Marmot">Olympic Marmot</a>, we will end our harrowing expedition a week later at <a href="http://www.quinaultrainforest.com/">Lake Quinault</a>. The objective is to find the Hermit of <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Hoh_Rain_Forest_Maples.JPG">Hoh</a>, and obtain from him the Hermit Scroll containing the Map of Aaaargh. Crossing through <a href="http://www.tourismvictoria.com/">Victoria, British Columbia</a>, we will use the map to locate the excavation site for the Cockatiel Crypt on <a href="http://www.experiencewa.com/v5/poi/poi.aspx?poiId=997">Orcas Island</a>. With the Golden Cockatiel in hand, eternal fame will be ours!
Enough joking -- now for the real things:
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