[image links are broken after several hosting moves, hoping to find backups somewhere]
I don’t get out nearly as much as I should, but we bought a 1 year state parks pass a couple months ago and haven’t used it once. Considering I only need to use it once a month to get my money out of it, I’m trying to do that (trying for every 2 weeks or better actually). One of our closest ones is Silver Falls State Park, we’ve been there many times and the kids love it (3 year old has been asking for a week to go). We went and saw the falls and started on a hike. Not very far into it, my 5 year old got his first ever blister (he insisted on wearing his Iron Man shoes instead of his good walking ones, hopefully lesson learned) and we managed to forget the first aid kit (first time ever and we needed it) so we had to head home instead of going to the swimming hole and playground, but it wasn’t a bad couple hours away from work. I got good enough photos that I could mess around with them in Photoshop anyway!
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