We spent Day 2 of our reunion at Crater Lake National Park. We picked the best day to go, too. The following days were really overcast and smoggy due to the fires, but for some reason, it was clear and beautiful for us. The whole family met at the lodge for lunch and the movie explaining the creation of Crater Lake. Then we decided which hikes to go on. Thanks to the children's stunning performance hiking in the redwood, we decided to take the whole family on a difficult hike down to the actual lake. I've been to Crater Lake many times, but never down into the actual basin, so I was pretty excited. They said it was equivalent to 67 flights of stairs, so I was impressed that my parents decided to go.
Here's the group before we started. Note that Joy is upset, not at the idea of hiking or seeing the lake, but that she lost her water bottle at the main cabin and had to borrow her cousins and she did not want it.
We made it down no problem, though of course, it rarely is. Here's The Captain and my niece enjoying some very cold, very blue water.
And here's my niece after she fell in.
And after all that, Joy wanted to get her feet wet, too.
And what was Miss Lee doing? Sleeping on Daddy, of course, she fell asleep quite soon after we started hiking.
Johnny was busy uploading pictures like this one on his phone. My children almost loved me right into the lake, too.
Here's the offending water bottle. She fell in love with it as soon as she was distracted by hiking and chipmunks and water.
And here's the group post hike up. I had some help by my brother with pokey Joy, who was giving me a good excuse to slowly crawl up the mountain. But keeping pace was good for me, and as you can see, we all survived and we felt pretty darn good.
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