Oregon Tripping it up!

Me, my spouse and my family all went up to Oregon in August to visit my brother and his wife, and made a few stops on the way up to Forest Grove.

Cloudy day at Crater Lake

 Here you can see the incredible blue Crater Lake is famous for.

 

Then off to the Redwood Forest...

And, the evidence to how much of a nerd I am, of all the things in the gift shop at Crescent City, this is what I wanted the most.

Oregon coastline just south of Gold Beach

Oregon coastline- Second Day

 Lots of mussel

 Mussels embedded in the rock

A day at the beach

 Depoe Bay

 A seal waiting for some easy dinner

 Bridal Veil Falls

 Day trip to Mt Hood

 the lodge at Mt Hood

 The view from the parking lot

Ziplining at Jen's work

 Picnicking (and swimming) at a lake

Seaside-Astoria area

 Fort Klatsop

 The beach at Seaside

Somebody caught a crab in the surf

 Due April 2014, baby Wight

Multnomah Falls

Wight family tradition: Glacier Nat'l Park

Once a year my husband's family takes a trip to Glacier National Park. After being there, I can see why. It is quite breath-taking.

Flathead Lake (it's huge!)

Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier NP

(Holy crap! straight drop off on the other side of the rock wall! Sometimes up to around 1000 feet or more!)

 Mountain sheep at the top of the pass (where Going-to-the-Sun Road ends. Go Rams!)

 Pictures at the visitor's center

 Marmot ("Alan! Alan! Alan! Al!")

 Ground squirrel

 Mama and baby mountain goats

 Parked under the weeping wall

 "The Gorge" just a short walk from our campground

 bear grass

 black pinecones that stick straight up from the branch

 This weird vehicle can be seen all over the park. These "Jammers" are used as tour buses

Swimming in Lake Koocanusa (named for the Kootenai River that feeds it and the "can" because half is in Canada, and "usa" because the other half is in the USA. We were in the US part of it (we didn't bring our passports).

 Train tracks running parallel to Kootenai Falls

Look What I Can Do!

Raspberry season comes and goes fairly quickly in The Garden, but when it hits, it's like an explosion of berry deliciousness. My MIL has a bunch of bushes and gave us a bowl-full on a night we had walked to their house, so, just for fun, while walking home I was seeing if I could balance the bowl on my head the whole way home. I made it a pretty good portion of the way, too. I was proud of myself :)