Snoqualmie Tunnel Bike Ride

It's been so nice lately that we just have to take advantage of the sunshine. First we headed down to Lincoln Park by our house and drove along the water's edge. It was beautiful out and we really enjoyed ourselves. The water didn't feel too cold on our toes since it was pretty hot, Beckham enjoyed throwing rocks and Brooklyn enjoyed finding gross crab legs and bodies like she always does (Yuck!)

Then we had been talking about this bike ride you can take through an old train tunnel. It's 2.5 miles long and dark, we decided we were up for some adventure. So we headed to the mountains, the trailhead was right at near the Snoqualmie Ski Resort. We took glow sticks for the kids, which they loved and a flashlight for us....which next time, we'll take two and headed into the tunnel.

It was crazy! It was so dark and damp and little sprinkles of water would fall from the ceiling now and then....we were driving through a mountain! Beckham got a little freaked out but Brooklyn loved it! We sang some songs until Chris said it just sounded spooky with how it was echoing in the tunnel. So we just said Toot! Toot! every now and then like we were a train.

The whole way through, you could see a little tiny dot of light (the light at the end of the tunnel) :) and soon it started to get bigger. It was really cold in there, we prepared the kids with jackets and a blanket but didn't think of ourselves in short sleeves, shorts and sandals...the cold wind made my eyes cry for part of it, but it was interesting how when you got closer to the light it became warmer, really neat. So on the other side, it was beautiful...breathtaking views and a really pretty waterfall. The trail goes on but we decided to stop there and let the kids play.

We had to laugh at the hard core bikers who had their gear on with head lamps, nice mountain bikes and everything and here come two people on their leisure beach cruisers with two kids and one flashlight, it was pretty funny. We had a great time and on the way back you could see for a lot longer until it went black because of the sun shining in that way. It was really fun.