The Begining

Scenic view at Crater Lake.

Our camera takes pretty good pictures but it doesn't do the blues at this mountain top lake any justice.  From the midnight blue of the shadows in the water to the pale baby blue in light cloud cover and everything in between; this picture may as well be in black and white.

This is where we made the fundamental error.  We encouraged the boys to hop behind the rock wall so they could make a funny chase panaramic with uncle Josh. Little did we realize around the rest of the lake there is no ledge beyond the rock wall. It falls so sharply and far that 40ft cedars look like legos about twenty feet out. Of course once they had jumped the wall once and ran, laughed and played they wanted to climb and walk the wall the whole time. By the time we got to the visitors center i was so stressed i could actually hear my pulse in my right ear. When Ivy finally spanked Gabe a bunch of people looked at us like we were bad parents for disciplining a child that was doing something that could kill him. I guess we should have spared the rod and let him plummet to his death. Other than trying to jump the ledges, the boys had so much fun and so did we.


 A couple little angels! Really though we had a really great time and a lot of poop breaks. This is also  along a monstrous cliff from which no mortal man could survive the fall. Ahhh responsibility...