Friday, September 9, 2011

Camping at Clear Lake

We went on a short 3 day camping trip to Clear Lake near the McKenzie River Trail.  The campground was called 'Cold Water Campground.' It turned out to be a lovely place with a spectacular lake and it was really clear!!  Lucia and Oscar did some off-piste riding on the balance bike and tot bike.  Pretty cute.  Relaxing with some trail running and mountain biking mixed in.  We dropped Scott off at the top of the McKenzie River Trail and picked him up at the bottom.  It was quite a 20 mile adventure for him.  We also did the waterfall hike to Sahalie Falls and Koosah Falls.  The waterfall hike was a loop where we got views of the falls from both sides of the river.  A great kids hike, meaning do-able with them on your back.  They hiked some too but the whole loop was about 4 miles, I think.  We, unfortunately, lost all of our pics from this trip but we have some funny video of the kids enjoying the campground.


http://vimeo.com/31319522


Benton County Fair

I would have never gone to the fair before kids but now it's a total blast!  One of the many things that are so fun now that didn't seem so fun before.  Lucia was so excited to ride the rides.  Of course, she was even more excited to ride them with her buddies, McKenna & Agoesh.  Of course, on that first go around of the roller coaster, the look of fear on Lucia's face made me feel sure that she was going to get off stat, but she found the fun in it and carried on!