Continuing on in our saga of the Green River Trail in Tukwila…  Today we skipped North on the trail and walked South from Cecil Moses Park to West Marginal Way.  We parked right next to Boeing and walked across a pretty cool foot bridge to the park.

We saw some bunnies and geese in the park along with a tree in full bloom.

Then we turned around and walked back across the bridge and continued South on the trail until we hit W. Marginal and turned around. (The trail goes across W. Marginal’s bridge then loops down under the bridge and continues South along the Green River. It was a lot of fun. Right before we loaded Evangeline into the car I had Tobin snap some pictures of the two of us. :)

Isn’t she sweet?

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Another sunny Saturday – another hike! :)  OK so our GPS let us down a little this time.  Technically it did get us to the park – but to the park boundary!  Rather than a leisurely park and walk to the beach we actually had a real hike (along unmarked trails – thanks City of Federal Way).  So yeah, good thing there were other people on the trail – we for sure would’ve gotten lost trying to get to the beach.  According to Buddyrunner on my phone, the hike down to the water was two miles (and it wasn’t that bad when we figured out what trail to take). The beach was nice but the tide was coming in so we didn’t spend a terribly long time on the water – just long enough to snap a few pics.

Problem was, the hike took too long for poor little Eva and she had had enough right about when we were going to turn around.  So we sat down on a picnic bench, and I borrowed Tobin’s jacket and wore it backwards as an improvised nursing cover – and nursed Evangeline who promptly fell asleep. lol The adventures of new parents.  What to do?  Well I set up the GPS on Tobin’s phone so he could navigate back to the actual park – and then he ran the 2 miles uphill back to the car, and drove it down to me.  By the time he made it back Evangeline had woken up – and I put her in the backpacker and met Tobin in the parking lot. It was a little more of an adventure than we were bargaining for, but at least we got a workout (especially Tobin!). :)

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So after our fun walk on the Green River Trail with Tobin’s parents the other day, we decided we should do all of the trail (that’s open right now) through Tukwila.  A good section of the trail is closed as there are sandbags on the trail due to the potential of the Howard Hanson Dam failing.  Anyways, we parked at Foster Golf Links and walked South to Fort Dent. This was a pretty lame section of trail as it goes down the edge of Interurban right past a bunch of really seedy Casinos.  I didn’t like that at all. It didn’t help that a bus dropped off a bunch of patrons right in front of us (complete with a hooker). Anyhoo…  I’m hoping this was the worst part of the trail – and everything is better than the section we did today!

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A gorgeous day today!  It really felt like Spring!  (I can’t lie, the sunny weather and blue skies reminded me of Eastern, WA.) Anyways, Tobin and I capitalized on the nice weather and even though it was a weekday we headed over to Seahurst Park in Burien for a little walk.

Did I mention that the weather was gorgeous?! It was shorts weather!

If only the weather were like this more often – it would make it a little less difficult to live on this side of the mountains!

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I think this was my favorite day trip yet.  Normandy Park is just a hop, skip and a jump from our house so I’m surprised we hadn’t visited Marine View Park before now.  Once again the good ol’ GPS helped us out and we drove right to the park – again pretty close to my work – just a few miles North of Biblesoft.  Anyways the path was pretty steep but nice. There was a picnic bench halfway to the water that Tobin and I thought would be really fun to eat lunch at sometime – so if you come visit us, we might have to take you here! :)

So most of the main path was paved – though of course we had to do a little side path that was dirt (but not too soggy). The last part was the coolest though – another boardwalk (I just think those are so cool!).  This boardwalk was all stairs down a bluff to the beach below.

Here we all are as a family…

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