Oregon - Part 3

Monday morning we met Ralph & Tina and Rachel & Rosanna at the church parking lot. Then we headed off towards Crater Lake. The lake is so blue and awesome. If you are ever out that way it is definitely worth a stop or a few hours drive.

We got there too late on Monday to get a boat tour that afternoon so we signed up for a morning ride on Tuesday. The rest of the afternoon we spent driving around the rim and taking pictures

Phantom Ship...doesn't look very big here but once you get down into the water it's pretty big!

A few panorama's that I really like

The 8 of us had 3 rooms in this house-turned-motel. It was quite interesting to say the least (and we might have been a little tired) but it was comfy! :)

Our room

Next up: sunrise pictures over Crater Lake

Oregon - Part 2

Saturday morning I went out to breakfast with a few of the single girls from Silverton. Then we met everyone else at the coast to climb this little sand dune. Let's just say it required a few breaks in order to get to the top :)

But the view from the top was totally worth it!

Proof that I actually made it to the top :)

Us and the Sinn's (well some of us and some of them)

On the way down, us 5 girls went a different way and went out to the tip of the rocks. It was an absolutely awesome view

Tressa and me

Family pic in front of the cool rocks

Carla and Samantha

For lunch, we all went to another park/beach area about 15 minutes from where we were in the morning. 

A pic of all of us single girls

Saturday was definitely one of my favorite days of our trip :)

Oregon - Part 1

Dad, Mom, Carla and I went to Oregon for a week in July. We were invited to Silverton by Dean & Heidi Sinn for Bible Class Invite-a-Friend weekend. I'm skipping a few things so that I can put these pictures up since they are way more exciting than pigs and goats (to me anyways).

We had an afternoon flight out of Albany, NY on Thursday July 23rd. I worked for 4 hours in the morning and then we hit the road for what was an AWESOME trip!! We landed in Portland a little after 10 PM. The time change made for a long day that day (3 hour difference) but it only took that night for me to get used to it.

Friday we spent part of the day in Portland. My coworker had told me about a couple of things and I wanted to ride the Portland Aerial Tram. I didn't know that it was associated with a hospital, but they let tourists pay a fee to ride it.

The gondola thing that we rode up & down in.

Never had this view of a highway before! :)

Mt. Hood (I think)

Going back to the lower part of the hospital

After the tram ride, we headed to the Sinn's house. We had dinner plans that evening at Silver Falls. While we were getting ready is when I realized that I had brought the wrong charger for my good camera (still can't believe I did that!). Mom used Dean & Heidi's camera that night and I just used my phone.

On the way we went by these fields that they were burning to get rid of stuff in the ground, or something like that.

This is what it looked like after

After dinner, the Bible Class played some "ice breaker" games

And the rest of us took walks around the falls.

Dad, Mom, Heidi, & Dean

Rachel, Tonya, Tressa, & Myself

Washington DC

In the beginning of June, some our Young Group traveled down to DC and served lunch in church on Sunday. We left early Saturday morning, and once everything was dropped off/settled, we took the train into the city and met Nate.

While we were looking at the White House, something happened because the cops starting hollering at everyone to get on the sidewalk on the other side of the street. We aren't really sure what was going on, but I was fine with it because it allowed me to get a picture of the White House with no heads in it!

Changing of the Guards

We walked down the stairs to try and see where the soldiers went after the Changing of the Guards. We ended up talking one of the cemetery people, one thing led to another, and we got brought down to where they go! We were just in the front room, but the guy who does the "changing" came out and talked to use for a little bit before he had to go out and do another "changing"

Arlington Cemetery

Group pic after church