The Full Moon and A Lookout Tower

Theo and I now have Fridays off together so we like to go on outings.  This past Friday, we traveled to Timber Butte Lookout to enjoy the Harvest Moon in the Willamette National Forest, southeast of Eugene. Elsie had a soccer game so she stayed home with AB.

Timber Butte Lookout - thanks Hilary and David!

Theo is not a fan of hiking, but she does like home-making.  As soon as we arrived she set the table for dinner and breakfast while I hiked up and down the trail to unload the car. She will make someone a good house-wife someday. The girls are very interested in the term "house-wife" which they learned from that Michelle Shocked song, Anchorage. 

"How about this spoon, Mama?"

 

 We cooked outside:

what a view! just kidding...

now this is a view!

Theo helped make the bed, of course, and then nursed a baby (a water bag) and played a complex sailing 

 game as the sun set:

"where are all the people?"

can you see the full moon?

 

I wanted to take a photo of the Harvest Moon with our new fancy camera, but couldn't figure out how to get out of automatic mode, so I can't share with you the awesome full moon we experienced. I will share with you that I started to get very worried about the fact that we were very vulnerable in this glass box if some hunters went berserk because of the full moon. 

We survived the night and the next morning we cleaned up:

My housewife!

Shotgun blasts in the forest...

Are the hunters going to shoot us?

Then we went hiking:

When we returned to our car we discovered a very flat tire.  Apparently, the forest roads are covered in gravel made from obsidian. Two hunters came along and helped us change the tire. The wife hunter had shot a 400 pound bear the week before and showed Theo a photo of it.  It is now summer sausage.

On our way home, we stopped by Heather Brinton's house in Eugene.  She is an old friend from Camp Alleghany for Girls. Did you know that Julie Bowen, an Emmy award winning actress, is a Ghany Girl? Will Elsie and Theo be Ghany girls too? what about Ida and Miki?

Our new camera is motorized so you can take about 10 pics/minute.  thanks for looking at all of our photos. 

Elsie and Soccer

Elsie has started playing in a soccer league.  Her team is called "The Attackers".  Below we see her in action.  She's very good at running up and down the field with enthusiasm, but sometimes a little shy to actually kick it.

This was an exciting weekend though because Elsie scored a goal!  And after the game she was awarded the "sportsmanship" medal.  She was very proud.

I think she liked shaking hands at the end best of all.