Glamping in northern WA

Towards the end of summer, Eliana had an opportunity to go horseback riding at a ranch in the northeastern part of Washington.  Emily's sister has taken her daughter there for a couple of years for a week and invited Eliana to go along this year.

So Eliana left home and met up with them in Seattle.  She spent a day or two in Seattle and took a glass blowing class at a local studio there.  In the class, you can make one or two items and it was just Eliana and her cousin.

Here she is rolling the glass back and forth so that it would keep it's shape.

This is the second item that she's working on.

Here the instructor is rolling the glass item and Eliana is adding on a strip of a different colored glass and rolling it on as decoration.

Here Eliana is putting the glass back into the hot oven to be able to mold it more.

Then it was time to drive to the ranch.  It was a loooooong drive north and east to get to the ranch.

Here is the super luxurious tent they slept in.  As you can see, they were not roughing it.  It had beds and furniture, and electricity.   Here is Eliana, and her cousin, Lena.  

Eliana went on two rides every day, each a few hours long!

This is the camp dog, who is a little Corgie-German Shepherd type that she played with.  It was obsessed with sticks and was happy playing fetch all day if you wanted.  Even though it had little stubby legs, it ran along with the horses all day long.

They did a cattle drive and when stopping for lunch, tied the horses on the trees.

More riding.

The smoke from wildfires wasn't too bad but there definitely was some in the air.

They had a little lake that was a 2 minute drive away.  There was a swimming dock in the middle of the lake that you could paddle board to.

They made it to the platform.  Eliana said that no one swam in the lake because of the weeds.

The ranch had skeet shooting.  Here is Eliana shooting clay pigeons in the pasture next to the cabins.

Here is Eliana with her cousin.  They had a good time.

A few weeks later, Aunt Gretchen came down to Vancouver and brought the glass items that Eliana made.  They could not take it with them at the time because they were too hot to handle and had to cool down.  

Here is the vase with colored glass contouring the edge.

And Eliana also made a tumbler encircled with blue.  They are both very nice looking!

Eliana had lots of fun and hopes this becomes an annual event!