My trip to Olympia!

[birdspiritland]

Yes, this is two months ago. I'm a slacker. Bear with me.

These are some photos from when I went to visit my friend Stern up in Lacey and Olympia, WA. We went around the state capitol, and then just had fun and stayed up way too late for the rest of the weekend.




As we headed toward the capitol building in Olympia, we found this poster on a telephone pole. It amused me.



The view from the capitol. So beautiful!



The entrance to a garden at the capitol. I liked the symmetry of it.



The WWI memorial statue in Olympia. It's gorgeous and touching, and I wish that I could've gotten closer, but it was very, very tall.



They almost look like real people.



The other side of it.



There were two big, gorgeous panels on one of the buildings. Here's one...



And here's the other.



*sigh* They don't make lampposts like that any more...



Yet another pretty lamppost. The next two are detail pics of this.







Stern hanging off of the nifty lamppost.



A slightly blurry photo of her, but with a good smile, I think.



The waterfalls in Tumwater, WA, which Stern's great-grandfather helped to found.



Stern pointing to the name of one of her relatives on the memorial plaque.



Face instead.



You could go down and walk around on the rocks, and the formations just fascinated me.



Artificial right next to natural. They're both beautiful.



Stern looking grumpy for a picture that I'm going to be doing in the future.



"This was not my idea."

Comments

[greenworldgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh how cool! Jealous of your travelings...And stern looks cute. Your first pic reminds me- my little town has this delightful habit of putting up political signs that nobody understands. We once had these government bug traps put out to check for levels of various bugs (prolly glassy-winged sharpshooters) and they had this little warning on them about how they were gov't property. So someone went around putting pictures of George Bush's face on them. Somehow they were these round stickers that had a photograph of his face. They did it real neatly too, so that the sticker was nicely centered under the GOVERNMENT BUG TRAP text.