Oregon

The week before last, we made a trip to Oregon for the annual Morris family coast trip. We were able to go out a couple days early and spend time with my parents, little sister Camille, and nephews. We played in the kid pool in the backyard, played tennis, ate breakfast on the back deck, went to Crater Lake and the Natural Bridge (see pics & explanation below), and watched the city band in Lithia Park. Once the other siblings got there, we headed to the Coast on Friday – a separate post on that later.

My mom offered to watch Bennett while we went to Crater Lake so he wouldn’t have to make another long-ish drive with us. We thought Landon would have fun, so he was our kid for the day :) He was great – didn’t complain and kept us entertained on the drive up with how smart he was.

The lake was beautiful! It really is naturally the blue that’s in the pic on the right above (no photoshop). It looks like it has blue dye in it.

    

This is the “natural bridge”. The picture on the left is where the water goes into a lava tube, on the right is where it comes out (the pics aren’t great but hopefully you get the idea). Nate thought it should be called water tube or underground river or something because it’s not really a bridge, just an area where the river goes underground into a hollow lava tube.

Bennett sitting in Grandma’s cute chair watching the band, and clapping.