Saturday, July 12, 2008

Niagara Falls Hike


Friday Nights are one of our family's favorite nights! We try to do something fun together, whether it's playing at the beach, watching a movie together, or a nice evening walk. Last night we went for a great hike and as we were hiking Nate said, "This is what life is all about huh E?"!! It's true! Doing fun things and being a family (especially out in nature) is one of our favorite things. The hike we went on is part of Nate's forest. It's called the Niagara Falls Trail and it is two miles round trip. It's actually the third most popular hike in the forest, and after hiking it last night we could understand why. When we reached the end of the trail we were pleasantly surprised with two awesome waterfalls. They were really neat. But what we enjoyed even more than the waterfalls at the end was all the berries we found! Oregon has many different kinds of berries our favorite are blackberries. But the kind we found were salmon berries. They are a little tart but taste kind of like raspberries and they are bright orange. The kids loved eating them, and we must picked several handfuls. We were pretty tired after the hike, it was steep in some parts but what a great little adventure for our family.

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