Thursday, June 3, 2010

Hood River to Bend

Today we drove from Hood River to Bend. A nice drive to take with many stops along the way to take in the beautiful Oregon views. Although it's raining, you can tell it's a much, much drier area than Hood River and Portland and the locals are all talking about how this is the most rain they've ever seen in June! We used the outdoor/indoor pool and hot tub. Pretty sure we could've boiled food in the hot tub. I had to stand in the rain (steaming) in order to cool down! Hopefully it clears up for tomorrow so we can do some outdoor activities tomorrow and/or Saturday.

Close to Hood River a view of Mount Hood
After a long drive up a windy mountain road, Timberline Lodge. Notice the many feet of snow left. There were many skiers and snowboarders in the 38* temperature. We were told the snow should last until about mid June.
Warm Springs fish hatchery was next on our stop. We took a bit of a side trip to get there but it was pretty neat to see the salmon hatchery.
Half priced appetizers doesn't mean they give you half as much. For $4.50 it was a plate of nachos the size of a large 4 year old. I ate until I thought I was going to die and stuffed a take home box...literally packed it in and could barely get the lid closed.
Kelsey thought the neatly folded towels with shampoo in them were worthy of a picture. They did look pretty cool.

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