Mt St Helens

Today we went on a strenuous drive down to mt st helens. It took 3 hours and our first stop was at the bottom of mt st helens. It was a reserve and we found some interesting facts. Mt st helens was a volcano and is famous for that. When it erupted it blew the whole top off the mountain. It also caused the biggest landslide in history.  It was the cause of millions of trees getting smashed. But the Weyerhaeuser's foundation salvaged about 600 trees a day for at least 6 months. Also 57 people died and 1 person caught the whole thing on video camera. Although the eruption was huge not many people heard it.  When it erupted the sound waves were pushed upwards causing the sound waves to be lost in the sky. The Weyerhaeuser's foundation also planted 18.4 million trees after the eruption. After that we went up the mountain and stopped at a mountain close to mt st helens. we watched a short film on mt st helens then a huge window apperaed and we had a direct view of mt st helens. You could even see the huge landslide slightly. The top of the mountain was covered in snow and clouds were crowded around the mountain. so basically we drove all that way and couldn't even see what we came to look at.

 

The next day we drove down to Washington state. We had some amazing Oysters served many different ways. And then we had the greatest tartare in the world for dinner.