Fall Camping Trip

Hold On Dylan!

For Our Camping trip we started out on a big loop. We camped the first night at clear lake (outside of Sisters) above and below. 

 Then we stopped at the Lava River Cave outside of Bend. Awesome The boys were so excited. Kyler kept asking about when we would see the "dead bats." The ranger outside of the cave had a bunch of photo's of bats with white nose disease (this caves bats are safe they are just trying to prevent it). However Kyler was excited and he wanted to take a "bat wing home" Um no.. The cave was super easy to walk through. Large ceilings smallest area brushed the top of perrys head, and most of it was very flat from everyone walking through it, and wide. It looked almost man made. The boys growled like bears through most of it and want to go back to the "bat cave." We saw no bats. phew.

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What was that?

The two bears.

Dylan telling us to hurry up, and the boys are in the middle of the ladder.

Kyler outside of the bat cave. Still excited even though he didn't get his bat wing.

 After the lava cave we started to drive the Cascade Lake loop and stopped at Elk lake to camp. Lots of crawdads to catch and rocks to throw. No luck with the fish.

This is where we kept Frank during our drive.... (we put him in there until we can tie him up)

 Just some shots of the moon and we believe Mt. Bachelor.

You can kind of see a boat and the boys beneath the tree.

 And then on the way back we tortured the boys with some photo shoots. This is Crescent Lake.

 Diamond Peak in the background.

 We also did a detour to go Bike riding on our favorite bike path outside of Cottage Grove. Cash and the boys posing on one of the bridges.

 Had a hard time making Dylan hold still for a group shot. So we stuck him back in the bike seat.

 Playing at the horse unloading docks at the bike ride. He kept poking his head over the rail and roaring at us. And then you have the monkey side of Dylan.

I also decided to go a little crazy and fit in some apple canning this last week. I am so pleased with how they turned out. Besides this group I did 7 more apple filling jars. For a first timer it went great. Kyler was the best helper. He likes to push the apples in the top of the applesauce maker. And he would hand me apples to run through the peeler. Good Job Kyler!