More Vacation pictures...plus...A trip to the Oregon Caves

   So Manny came to visit for the day and we enjoyed seeing him for a while. We went down to the creek and boy was it COLD....he had to study and work so couldnt stay very long. A few hours was better then nothing.
   Then yesterday (Wednesday) Anna, Sam and Myself took Gracie and Matthew and we went to the Oregon caves. They were amazing and these pictures don't even do it half the justice when seeing it in person! There were so many amazing things thru out the whole thing. There was over 500 steps we took over the whole thing!! And towards the very end, is a part in the Cave were the acuastics are Amazing!! One of the other gentleman along with Sam and I, we sang Amazing Grace as the rest of the group was about 20 yards at the end of the cave listening to the sound. It truly was amazing. It was as if we had microphones with reverb added... but of course it was jus us standing there. I wish I had thought of it before we sang but I could have and should have recorded it on my phone. oh well. I will always have it in my memory. Here are some photos. I will share even more later.



Mom, Grandma, Auntie Gail



Manny and Zoila

A baby sparrow...Bens new pet.



Sam and Karisa



Manny didn't have Shorts with him...oh well

Mom

 Hiking to the creek



Reyah braving the water to see Anna




So nice and cold looking



Anna

aaahhh Jumping in....

Thats a face of fear for the Freezing water below.

Gracie and Dad

Fluffy misses me

Micah and Zoila

The entrance to the Oregon caves

These are called soda straws

This is one of ten arrows that were burn't on the cave walls in the 1800's

I wouldn't want to be stuck in the dark in a hole like that in the cave.

Can you see the heart?! its formed out of well, I dont remeber the name...but it was the first kind of antibiotic used in the 1800's...if put on a cut or wound it acted as a natural healer.

This one kinda of looks like a cat going up a drain pipe. see it?

If you look close...there is a shape of a coke bottle thats fizzing over.

This stair case (we went down) is were a water funnel formed this downward passage about thirty feet deep.

The big slab looking part on the left side is called a Canopy...on the inside if you look at the rock...its design in the rock look likes a Human sceleton.

This design looks like milly bugs...but its actually a type of moss.

Sam and Mathew and I took an additional 150 vertical steps to a loft type dome where these amazing rocks were.

Sam and Matthew at top

The three of us at the top.

add black light to the cave walls and the calcium and rocks look amazing and have lots of color.

Matthew and Gracie all done and out of the cave.