Oregon City, Oregon - Week 17 - April 22- April 28, 2019

Remember last week's description of what the kids play after school?

Here is Abby in her Pioneer costume.  It was a difficult game for Abby and Clara to play because there was some confusion as to what pioneer girls should wear when they are traveling with the wagon trains.  Jessica and Bev need to find their Pioneer Day costumes and help out their girls.



Jude loves to play landscape worker



Ruby prefers to play Aquanaut



I like "throw the wood into the basement" using the new concrete walkways"



The exciting event for the week was that Evan's mission call had come.  He got his email on Tuesday, sometime during the day, and revealed the destination at a festive gathering that evening at 8:30













Yep - there it is - Buenos Aires, Argentina.  He reports to the MTC in Mexico City on August 20th.  The two years of high school Spanish will now prove their worth.  We are all excited for him!



On Friday four of us headed to Smith Rock State Park - Jenn, Jessica, Bev, and me.  The purpose was to scout out the trail that the Laurels, on their High Adventure, will take.  Also to look at the KOA Park where they will spend two nights, and the boating facility where they will board their party boats for their day of water frivolity.

The trail was four miles long.  The first two miles were simple "up and down" along the river.  Then we came to Misery Ridge which was one mile UP and one mile DOWN - the trail has a fitting name.









We dared Bev to climb the tree.







Here is Monkey Face - a well named point of interest.  When we came up behind it, later on on the hike, we could see two people sitting in the monkey's mouth.



Now the misery began



Bev was not on the monkey's head






Lots of little tiny caves where the wind and rain had done their magic.  Just like people in Bulgaria wrote names of loved ones and stuck the strips of paper into the niches of the walls of monasteries, hikers had balanced small stones in the tiny caves.





At the top and then down and back to the car.







We ate lunch at a Mexican restaurant in Madras - we were famished.  I only had one leg cramp on the way home.....pretty good.

In Webelos Scouts we have been working on map reading and orienteering skills with our scouts.  Saturday was the culmination of three previous activities we had had.  It was the Columbia River Orienteering Club Scout-O at McIver Park.

Along with Ethan Hamblin and Dalen Hair