Crater Lake

We drive four hours this morning to get to Crater Lake National Park in Oregon.  As soon as we got set up we immediately had to do laundry, as ours has been over flowing.  So we stared it and then went to the lodge for lunch and souvenir shopping.  It was an easy way to kill time.  Sadly one of the dryers did not work too well so we had to then lay out our wet clothes all over the camper.  It looked like hillbillys lived there.

After the laundry fiasco, we went to explore the outer rim of the lake.  All I can say it that there are no words to describe the beauty of the lake,  The water was so blue, the trees were full and rich, the wild flowers were amazing.  It was like looking at a picture.  We drove the entire rim of the lake, stopping at the various look out points.  We were so high up the mountain (about 6000 feet) that there was still snow in some areas.  Both Maddie and Hailey had a snowball fight in the middle of July :).   I made the entire drive on the mountains myself, with some verbal encouragement from Doug.  I still hate heights and driving on narrow roads with the suburban.

After the drive, we all kind of needed some down time, so we ended up reading in the camper.  This site had no WiFi and no hook ups as well.   It was very relaxing and what we needed since Doug has a LONG drive tomorrow to Seattle.