Fun with the Slip N' Slide

Bubba being Bubba. It took three grueling days of sliding to get the hang of this extremely complicated device, but they did it. Anna never did quite get the hang of it, though. She ended up sort of shimmy/crawling down it like a G.I. in boot camp.

Oregon Caves

Included in our roadtrip was the Oregon Caves monument. Forgive me for the grainy and sort of fuzzy pictures. They don't allow tripods in there so you have to hand hold the shots, which is kinda hard in the dark. Either way, we had fun for almost two hours in the dark, it was a lovely 44 degrees in there on a 95 degree day.

From the redwood forest......

Once again Butterfield and I decided we needed to get out of town this weekend, and "town" just wasn't enough. We had to get out of state, so we went down to California to check out the redoods. We ended up doing about 150 miles down the southern Oregon coast, then the redwoods, the Oregon Caves and the House of Mystery (which was pretty unmysterious, if you ask me but I love a tourist trap). It was a fun-filled 900 mile trip to escape the heat in Portland and next time I need to bring my kids. 15 hours in the car. Yeah.

Paul could talk to the rubes via either a camera or just some dude hidden in the woods. He would make people laugh uncomfortably as he described what they were wearing or what they looked like. He would then wave or wink at the women and children. Only kinda creepy.

The first really big tree we came across. This is literally ten feet from the road, my tripod is in the breakdown lane to shoot this.

And some more....

This is called the Corkscrew Tree. I'm not quite sure how many trees are involved here, but they are all sort of swirling around each other.




















Gotta do the tourist thing, right?






















The little pink dot at the bottom of the tree is Amy, added for scale. This is called Big Tree. I know, right? So much imagination went into the naming of these trees. This bad boy is 300 feet tall, 21 feet wide and about 1500 years old.