Crater Lake

We went to Crater Lake for the first time ever, for Jim, me and the boys and man is is gorgeous. Its actually only less than 2 hours from Bend and a really pretty drive, as you get closer to The Crater you feel like when the drive ends you will be at the top of the world and you kind of feel like that when you get out and look down to see the huge, deep blue lake below. Here are a few of my favorites of our visit:

This was taken from inside a little stone lookout that is carved into the side of The Crater, it looks like we were in some aquarium, but thats really what it looks like. The water was so beautiful it looked like a gel of some kind, not the freezing cold water it really is.

We walked around and explored the little village, and resort, and path along The Crater and found a place for the boys to play. These trees were just a magical place for them to be, and in the distance was a view of a far valley that felt like you could see forever! (I was really wishing that we had Tina's or DyAnn's camera there with us!) Yep, definately one of our favorite places to be...sigh....