A Waterfall, or two, or three…

Friday morning we headed off to Multnomah Falls to do a little hiking.  The first stop was Vista House; it had a great view.  This was the viewpoint Spencer took.

Next we drove down to Latourell  Falls (don’t ask me how to pronounce that!).Abbie and Spencer  running up the trail.  At Vista House one of the park rangers gave each of the kids a round “I love Oregon” sticker and we put them on their backs so it would be easy to recognize them from the back. 

The thing that I thought was the most interesting on the trail was that the tree branches had moss growing on them.

Some of them were totally covered in moss! We found a few cool fallen logs.  You just had to be careful were you sat down so you didn’t take to much fallen log with you when you stood up. :-0 There were some fun flowers to take pictures of too.

This is the second waterfall.  It was downhill to get to this one.  I think I prefer hiking up to the waterfalls and enjoying the downhill on the way back to the car. This one is Bridal Veil, which must be a popular waterfall name because we have one in Provo with the same name.

The girls and Spencer and I climbed up onto the big rock out in the stream. There was a look out deck  built just above the rock.  To get onto the rock we had to step over this really nasty slug that someone had stepped on….yuck!

Here you can see the deck in the left side of this picture.

My three sillies…This stump was about as tall as Mark and Ken lifted the kids up so they could sit on top of it.

We started up another trail, Angel’s Rest, but didn’t come upon the waterfall soon enough for the kids, so we turned around.  Abbie was dying to take a picture and found these pretty leaves to capture on film.We spent a little more time hiking than we had planned and so we called Mark, my brother, to come up and join us.  He meet us on the way back down the “unwaterfall” trail. And then we went on to Wahkenna Falls.

Spencer is quite often the King of our house and despite Ken’s best efforts the King enjoyed many rides from his subjects tired of his whining.Copying Spencer’s viewing techniques from the morning I got this picture. The kids didn’t remember Multnomah Falls and so we just hiked up to the bridge there. The last waterfall we saw was actually an attempt to find an on-ramp to the freeway.  But Jessie really liked this one – Horsetail Falls.

After dinner at Apple Bee’s we walked over to a park near Charles and Ann’s house, where we are staying, for a little game of croquet.  It was getting quite late at this point but after all of the kingly treatment Spencer received and a little nap on the drive home he was wired.  After the croquet game, in which Ken clobbered the rest of us, we went home for ice cream.

Charles, Ann, Ken, Uncle Mark and I stayed up to play a game of Five Crowns and had a great evening…. oh, until Ken had to quit the game and go lay down with Spencer to help him go to sleep.