San Juan Family

Get ready for another fabulous San Juan Island 4th of July. The Friday harbor parade is an island favorite, starting at 10:30 am and the fireworks display has been called “The best in the country” more than once. After the parade, enjoy the pig war reenactment and picnic at the San Juan Historical [...]

Homeschoolers in the San Juan Islands gives families time to explore the fantastic State parks in the region.  Park ranger turned homeschooling dad, Jon Merryman, keeps a website for indexing his family’s experiences at all of the State parks.  Apparently they have a Junior Ranger badge program, and his kids have been to several state [...]

This one was particularly interesting to me, as I’d always been

fascinated with the act of making concrete.
I was as pleased as any geek-mom could be when I saw that they had an entire park named after  a Lime Kiln.  It was all so beautiful, I really forgot to visit the kiln area.  We spent time, [...]

The Gulliksons are back….
It was a nice surprise to see Glen and Bobbie (right) on the ferry yesterday – they’re back from their tour of the States (and a chunk of time in sunny Florida) to move back aboard on their boat & return to work on the island.

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