Everybody's Workin' For the Weekend

"Friends are thieves of time" - Anonymous

Labor Day weekend rocked the house because it was filled with friends - both being newbies to The Blog. After being on our duffs all day Saturday (Go Ducks!), Sunday, I showed off Oregon to my Alabama friend Andy. The goal was to climb to the top of Multnomah Falls. (And neither plums nor peppers could stop us!) We didn't exactly make it there, but over 6 miles and an elevation gain of 1500' later we saw plenty of other gorgeous sights. Oh, and I did the entire trip in flip-flops. Since it was totally spontaneous (thus the flip-flops) I had to borrow pictures from the website: waterfallsnorthwest.com

These are the 3 big ones we saw: Weisendanger Falls, Ecola Falls and the last one is Wahkeena Falls which means "most beautiful." And how! This is Andy and I at my birthday party earlier this year:

Sunday night: CHARLA!!! She made a pit stop in L.O. on her way down to becoming a P.A. in Eugene at a dermatology clinic. Here's another archived picture: after she baptized me last summer:

Monday was the Cape Horn Trail adventure with my other New-Kid-On-The-Blog friend, Nancy. We got kind of a late start and traveled to another state and couldn't find the official trailhead and didn't know if this was a loop or out and back and had to call my mom and dad and walked the last 1.7 miles on the "shoulder" of an undivided highway. . .but other than that, it was a great hike!!!

Check out the GORGEOUS views of the Gorge. It looked exactly like this during the Multnomah hike, except we were staring at Washington.

Nancy and I during our pit stop about halfway through. (Really, who knows where we were or how far we had gone at that point?) I do know we were good and sweaty though!!

We started our hike walking next to that field. Yes, that is an elevation gain of over 1000 ft. Granted, we did the thing backwards so maybe it was a little more for us. At least I had boots on this time!

I can't begin to explain how happy I was to see the car! This was one of Portland Monthly's "Lost Hikes" and boy did we do that name justice! Not that we got lost, we just didn't know where we were - yes, there is a big difference. Now it's off to Chez Elisa's for dinner!!!