Kickoff to the Camping Season

We have a goal this year to camp more. And to get better at it. We spent Friday night at Laverne County Park near Coquille. Despite the rain, it was really fun. We were the only campers besides a trailer in the whole park. It was peaceful and very wet. Friday night we had some hobo dinners and banana cream pie woof'ems (explanation below) and Saturday we explored the little falls and river after having eggs and sausage under the rain.

Tenemos una meta este a~no a campar mas. Y ser mejor campistas. Este Viernes pasamos a Laverne County Park cerca de Coquille. Aunque estuvo lluviendo, fue muy divertido. fuimos los unicos campistas en el parque. Fue muy tranquillo y muy mojado. Tuvimos comida de aluminio y pay de crema y banana en la noche del Veirnes y el Sabado, exploramos las "cascaditas" y el rio despues de desayunar de huevos a la mexicana bajo la lluvia.

Very green camp

Indi, chopping wood.

I had this expectation of taking amazing photos around the campfire. Unfortunately, that doesn't always happen. The good news is that I will have more practice this summer.

Jamir, the lone camper (trying to keep the fire alive).

Lantern pics.

We always start laughing when the timer goes off...but better than stiff poses right?

banana cream pie woof'em

What I woke up to Saturday morning.

Jamir making a shelter

There were giant stumps all over.

Shelter while we eat breakfast

We made the woof'ems out of sticks we found in the park. We sanded them and drilled a hole. Basically, you cook a biscuit around them and fill with anything you want.

Standing in the river.

Wet Jamir

Skipping stones

And it stormed crazy on Sunday, but I wanted a picture next to this tree I saw while running at Mingus Park. The rest of the blossoms will open soon so I'm excited for that!

Wall Photos

This post is only to get some feedback. We had a few minutes on Saturday after a baptism to take pictures while we were still dressed up. I've been watching a lot of photography and photoshop tutorials, so I wanted to put them to use. I realize they are not perfect and there are things I can improve, but if you have any suggestions that would be helpful. Maybe if you can time put 1)your favorite picture and why and 2) your least favorite and why. 

It would help give me some perspective on this whole thing :)

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And just some pics of a windy bbq at John Topits Park. It's still cold here, but we braved it to try and pretend its summer and eat outside.

Cute dog in a canoe 

Slightly burnt jalapeno poppers

Exploring Up North/Explorando el Norte

We spent the weekend visiting Chris and Maren up in Newport. The moving date is getting closer so this may be the last time we go there for a while. We were able to wake up early Saturday morning to see Cape Perpetua's sites (about halfway to Newport) at high tide. Then we played frisbee golf with Chris, had a picnic and hiked to Drift Creek Falls in the evening. Thanks Chris and Maren for letting us stay!

Pasamos el fin de semana visitando a Chris y Maren en Newport. Nos despertamos temprano el Sabado en la manana a ver las attraciones de Cape Perpetua en marea alta. Despues en Newport jugamos frisbee golf con Chris, tuvimos un picnic, y fuimos a Drift Creek Falls. Gracias a Chris y Maren por dejarnos quedarnos con ellos.

We got up early to visit Cape Perpetua  that has "Spouting Horn", "Devil's Churn" and "Thor's Well". Unfortunately, we couldn't find Thor's Well, but the other sites were really cool. It was almost scary getting close to the loud waves hitting the rocks. It was a beautiful way to start Saturday morning.

Spouting horn

Basically, when the wave hits, it looks like steam coming from a smaller hole. Pretty awesome.

No name for this, just a place where the waves were big.

Devil's Churn

It's hard to show how large the waves really were.

Enjoying the sunrise.

Where we explored below.

I told Jamir to hug the whale :)

Chris took us to a cool place to play frisbee golf. It looked a lot like Lord of the Rings; in a forest where the hobbits live. It was fun to explore from hole to hole and try to not get the frisbees lost in the bushes.

Thought these bottle caps were cool.

I love how the light comes through the trees.

I call this "Brothers on a Log"

Climbing up from below.

cool log bridge and stairs.

After lunch, we decided to venture to Drift Creek Falls. The drive was so windy, but pretty. It was a nice hike-although the best part is definitely the end. The suspension bridge was awesome! We were all pretty hungry and tired after, but I felt happy we did it.

Suspension bridge overlooking falls.

View from the bottom

Lopez boys

Playing with rocks is so entertaining.