Hey everyone.. Well, we haven't written in a while but we really haven't had anything to say. We have both been doing really good. We are working a lot at Costco. Braxton had a week were he had 50 hours (cookies were on coupon). Britta's hip is hurting her a bit so she is going to transfer to another department so she doesn't have to go out and push the carts in the parking lot. She is probably going to end up in the food court or in clothing. Work is good and it takes up most of our time. We were able to get about two weeks off so we could relax and have some fun. We haven't gone camping together and Britta has never been farther west than Utah so we decided that a camping trip to the west was the best. We decided to leave the 28th of July after work was over. We left pretty late that night and headed up to I-80 west. Britta fell asleep really quick and I got really tired about the time we got to Winnemuca, Nevada. We decided to pull over and sleep for a bit but we didn't want to just sleep in the car like we usually do. We got ourselves the cheapest motel room that we could find. We got to bed around 4 am and then we were up again at 8 am. We left with half a tank of gas and we thought that we could get all the way to Adel, Oregon before we would have to fill up again. Well, we made it to Adel but come to find out it is a town with a population of only 78 or so. There is only one gas station in the town and just our luck, it was closed. We tried to find the person who ran the station but we couldn't find anyone. Our gas light had just came on when we entered the town so we had three gallons left before we couldn't go anywhere. The next closest station was in Lakeview which just happened to be 33 miles away. We decided to go for it. Every time we were going down hill I would put the car into neutral and coast down the hill. Luckily with a lot of praying we made it to Lakeview and to the gas station before our gas ran out. We made it up to Crater Lake in the afternoon. We had a pretty good camp site and after quickly putting up camp we headed for the lake which was about 13 miles from the camp. The lake is the deepest and clearest lake in America and I think the 7th deepest lake in the world. It was really pretty. We walked around for a bit and took lots of pictures which we will have to put up later. We cooked ourselves some awesome food and then we went to take a quick nap. We ended up taking to long of a nap and when we woke up it was late into the night. We woke up early the next morning and after breakfast we headed up to the trail that led down to the lake. It was about a two mile hike down. We got down there and we played around in the lake for a while. It was extremely cold but it was beautiful. We took our time hiking back up the 2 mile hill to get to our car. We then left and headed to Cave Junction for the Hart Family Reunion. We will blog about that next time. Pictures are coming soon........
