Silver Falls State Park Hike

This Saturday we decided to take advantage of a day free from required things to do and make a semi-spur of the moment trip out to Silver Falls. We had heard that it was a beautiful area and had added it to our list of "things to do before leaving Oregon". Basically it is a state park that, within about a 5 mile loop, you can see 10 waterfalls (more like 6 during the non rainy season, a few of them were more like trickles that fell really far.) The kids handled walking up and down amazingly well and definately logged more miles than probably all previous hikes combined. There were a few times that we (mostly almost 8 months pregnant Bri) were literally applauded as we climbed switchbacks with children in tote. Of course no trip would be complete without the surprises of Dallas peeing in open public, using a rock to "color" on the minivans paint job, and Brooklyn falling out of the stroller 6 inches from about a 30' drop off. Just living the dream.