Sunday, December 21, 2014

Oregon Trip

My Grandpa and I drove out to Oregon to see family in October...(and yes, I realize that it is almost Christmas...) :)
Here are a few photos of our travels and things we saw.

A beautiful sunrise in western Wyoming

We stopped at Twin Falls Idaho for lunch...the gorge is beautiful. The locals said that there wasn't enough water for the falls to be going so we didn't go up there.

We stopped to stretch our legs in eastern Oregon. It was way hillier than I thought it would be!

We stopped at the stunning Sahalie Falls along the Mckenzie River


My Aunt is an artist, so we got to visit her studio and see some of her art. It really was fascinating to hear about the process behind the creation of the pieces.
You can check out more of her work at almeidiastudio.com

I spent a day up at the Evergreen Air Museum seeing Howard Hugh's Spruce Goose and several of my favorite WWII airplanes 





We went and visited this 100 year old covered bridge across the Mckenzie River


We spent the weekend on the Oregon Coast. We waded in the Pacific (it wasn't much colder than water from the garden hose in the middle of summer...) and ate some of the best seafood of my life!! 




We went to an Oregon Ducks Woman's volleyball game. They had a petting zoo "for the kids" but I'm pretty sure there were as many adults there as kids! I got to hold a ring-tailed lemur!
And the Ducks won their game pretty easily so it was a good night!

Soon thereafter we headed for home.

One more beautiful view in Wyoming :)