Rise and shine campers!
Day’s weather forecast.. cloudy and scattered showeres !?! but we were lucky though.. it was a very bright sunny day.

We all got up around 8 a.m and made a plan to go to St.Helen’s mountain which is near the border of Washington and Oregon . It was a 4 hr journey from Bothell to Mount St. Helen’s. We were all set and then our car gave a problem.. the battery was down. We later realised that the previous night we forgot to switch-off the headlights, so we had to give a jump start to the car.
Phew !
Finally we hit the road.. had some snacks.. played anthakshari..
The game rules:
1.if you dont sing a song in 2 mins ;you are out of the game
2. no teaming; which bhabhi and me wanted to pair up, but then bro and uday didn’t want to do that, they said ‘its no fun’.
They finally made us agree ! Frist, it was Uday, he started off with a telugu song.. and then it was my turn.. lol! my mind was blank.. well thats not true.. i didn’t wanna sing thought i would escape slowly.. but they were too clever.. made me sing some song. We were singing and singing.. after few rounds..it was my turn again.. i’ve been getting the same letter and this time too i got the same letter .. seriously I was out of songs ( was not escaping this time)! 2 mins were over and i was out of the game
They continued singing while I was busy taking pictures .. The drive was just amazing with valley’s, lakes and lush green trees. The valleys were astonishing !
Here are a sample snaps which I took on the way to Mount St. Helens :

After a 4 hrs of driving we reached Mount St.helen’s visitor center.

Wow! amazing, astonishing.. these were the words i started using.. You must be wondering what’s all about St. Helen’s… well its a volcanic mountain ‘an active volcanic mountain’ to be more precise. I was thrilled to see an active volcano never ever I saw a vlocanic mountain that close.. I could even see the smoke coming out. We took a couple of pictures of the mountain..the national volcanic monument center had a 30 min show describing the events of 1980 volcanic erruption of Mount St. Helen’s ..here are some picture :

So, we stayed there for an hr . and drove back to home.. we were all tired.. and dropped the idea of shopping in portland.. I slept for a while and .. was I snoring ? yea I was . lol! None of us had the energy to go home and cook something and decided to go to the Udipi restaurent… but later we ditched that for the Mexican restaurent which is know for its salsa and chips. At the end we all were full, couldn’t stuff more.. we decided to pack it and take home.

We reached home and all of us were sitting and chatting… Uday was the first person to crash.. ‘coz he was the one who has been driving all day and needed a good night sleep… me , bhabhi n bro were still tallking … talking about meditation and reiki ..some seriuos stuff .Then i started explaining them what is Reiki.. how it is useful in life.. and was giving reiki healing to my bhabhi n bro.. was telling my experiences about reiki… never knew time would fly fast.. it was 2:00 a.m ! No wonder they say ” Sleepless In Seattle .” Some how you dont sleep early when you are in seattle.

And finally we hit the bed, but my bro had to go to the office as he had some work to finish… and I slept like a log.