Great Uncle Mark and Great Aunt Val

We visited Daddy's uncle Mark and his wife Val on the far western edge of the Olympic Peninsula before taking a few days to explore the forests and beaches on the Peninsula.

Playing with the awesome toys at the house:

Breakfast game:

Helping Val let the chickens out in the morning:

Playing in the clover:

Daddy introduces Ava to banana slugs.  Perhaps this was unwise, as she got one in her mouth the next day at our Ho River campsite.  The slug slime, we learned, is difficult to remove from baby's fingers and face.  It essentially acted like rubber cement, gluing the forest floor soil and debris to her face and hands.  Perhaps, however, finding the slugs was inevitable.  That seems more probable.

Daddy helps Uncle Mark thresh homegrown wheat in Mark's modified chipper:

Ava explores the mechanics of the lazy Susan:

Whipped cream is enthusiastically accepted: