Yesterday's vacation activity was a visit to a place right in our own back yard, Ft. Vancouver.
Ft. Vancouver is run by the National Park Service, and is a reconstructed, "living history" fort build on the exact location as the original. The Fort was established by the Hudson Bay Company and was the first established European settlement on the West Coast. It's primary purpose when it was built was to promote and facilitate the lucrative fur trade.
The Flag of the Hudson Bay Company, flying over the Fort.
The front gate of the fort. To get there you pass through a re-creation of the elaborate gardens that existed there at the time.
One of the main building inside the fort was the Chief Factors house. 
Inside the carpenters shed, where everything is made without the help of electricity or power tools.
Marlene in the Jail...She got out on bail.
Inside the infirmary
One corner of the reconstructed palisades and bastion.
Me inside the bastion...couldn't figure out how to fire the cannons.
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