Awesome Weekend

So I can finally blog about all the batiking I've been doing! Amber had her baby shower this weekend, so I had been preparing her gift. I made a bunch of onesies, and I had a great time making them. I've have learned so much just by practicing, and trial and error. I'm happy I've finally mastered bright colors!



Amber's gift:


She loved them and I'm so glad! It's always hard to be objective about your own art.


Everyone at her shower designed and made their own monster for the baby. It was super fun and interesting to see how different everyone made theirs. Here is Amber with the monster I made:



Amber with all the monsters:


After the shower I got to go back to see how her remodel is going and catch up with her.
Today I suggested to my parents that we go to Silver (Silver Creek, anyone know the story with the two names?) Falls and hike around. On the way we passed this house that has had camels for years. This was the first time that I had stopped. We got out and I took some pictures, and as we were leaving I realized how close I could have gotten. I was regretting that I hadn't gotten any head shots. Side note, Megan add this on the list with the moose. What a crazy animal.


So we went to Silver Falls, hiked about 4 miles and saw 5 out of the 10 falls. It was chilly, but really not that bad was we got moving. I took more pictures, but they didn't turn out well. I think the foggy/mistiness threw my camera off.

At my request we stopped by the camel house again. It was feeding time and we got pretty close to them. I noticed a young one mixed in. I took pictures for a few minutes and pretty soon the owner came walking out. I was a little worried he was going to tell us to leave or something, but he came up and my dad quickly introduced himself. My dad knew who he was, he was an attorney in Salem. He let us go in, we even got to pet them! We asked questions and learned about them.
The baby, I love this. His little face hasn't quite filled in right and he looks a bit like ET.


A sea of humps


Baby again, he is 8 months old.


This one really liked this hat (why am I wearing this ridiculous hat you ask, because it was cold and that's the one my mom dug out for me, as she wore her stylish Arcteryx hat) and I would be standing there and all the sudden feel the camel nuzzling my head.



So close to them! This is the nuzzler.

This guy also has zebras, wallabys and I think kangaroos. It's unclear to me why he has them...I think for breeding? I know that's why he has the camels, he has 14. He was very educated on them, and seemed to have some sort of a vet background as well. This one is young.

I'm so happy I worked so hard during the week so I could take some time off. I can't wait for Christmas break!