Camping: Rock Creek CG on Crane Prairie Reservoir

First family camp trip for Abbie and PJ.  We went with some neighbor friends of ours (the Gillettes) to Rock Creek campground on Crane Prairie Reservoir in the Cascade Mountains.  Just one night but a fun time even though it was a bit of a cold night.  Here are a few pictures around camp.

On Saturday afternoon we did a hike to Lucky Lake.  Preston gave it a good go but I ended up carrying him most of the way:)

A couple of panoramic shots from down at the lake below our camp site


A day in Toronto

I had to travel to the east coast for a week and our first meeting was in Toronto so I came in a day early and dad came down to Toronto for the day to visit.  We went to the CN Tower.  Built in 76, neither of us had ever been up it.  It held the record for the highest free standing structure in the world from when it was completed in 1976 until 2007.  It is 553.33 M tall (1815 ft 5 inches).  Inside, the highest you can get is the sky pod which is 447m (1465ft) or the equivalent of 147 stories.  The video and most of the pictures of the city below are shot from the sky deck.  The sky scrapers around look small.  

The afternoon was spent drinking beers and having a late lunch down by the water.  Overall a great day.

Rivers of Glass - Glass Butte Oregon

Today the boys and I did an rock hounding outing to an area about 75 miles east of Bend called Glass Butte.  This is an area where there are veins of obsidian (volcanic glass) everywhere all different types and you are free to collect whatever you find.   We wanted to go now before it got too hot.  It got up to about 78 degrees F today so still pleasant.

Here are a few shots of pieces we collected including standard black obsidian as well as some mahogany obsidian.  See the size of the one chunk we found.  It was actually bigger but I had to knock some pieces off to make it small enough to carry.

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