belated photo post, just for fun…

ok this post is way belated – this is the first part of our fun times with pete’s parents playing tourists, before the berry picking and stuff from my post a couple weeks ago.  i’ve had the photos plugged into a draft for weeks, and now so much time has passed, i’m just going to show you the photos with brief captions…

those above 3 are inside the timberline lodge, on mount hood, where there was lots of cool crafted stuff, like hooked rugs made with recycled uniforms, and that crazy old loom.

we ate some super yum food, and got to sit on the other side of that window you can see above, with that view of mount jefferson, so majestic!

pete got tillamook mac n cheese and i got some awesome pasta salad – timberline lodge, thumbs up!

coming home from mount hood, we took a scenic route through hood river to the 84, which we ended up regretting due to a hay truck on fire ahead, stopping the freeway completely for 3 hours (for us – others had been stopped for several hours longer) once we hit the jam.  lucky for us though, the point where we stopped happened to be at a shoulder along the columbia river gorge where we were able to pull over and walk around.  so i took a lot of photos…

i think that’s the closest i’ve ever been to a (moving) train.  i had fun with shutter speed experiments.

cameras are fun!

then the next day we drove out to the coast, stopping on the way at mcmenamin’s grand lodge (not super interesting when we’re used to kennedy school, edgefield, bagdad, etc).

and stopping along the side of the road in various naturey spots to take a few photos…

…before arriving at the tillamook cheese factory!

it was a fun time! cooler than i would have thought to see the cheese being made, in various stages, and interesting to learn about tillamook and their happy cows!  and we got some free cheese samples, and ice cream!

then we headed up to seaside…

this was my first time seeing the oregon coast, after living in portland for 2 years.  as i’d been told, it’s way different from the southern california beaches i’m used to.  cold but very scenic and photogenic!

i took some hooded family shots…

and more…

then up to astoria for dinner at fort george (yummm anaheim pepper veggie burger!) and to see the column and the view:

we didn’t go up the column (too high!), but i did take a picture looking up the stairs:

and here’s the view looking the other way… oh oregon, so green…

good day trips! fun times!  i like playing tourist without traveling far – well, i love traveling far, but since that’s not possible, day trips are a fun alternative.

to keep you updated, it’s looking like the new site won’t be up till monday night or tuesday – the next do stuff! post should be the site announcement!  then i’ll catch up on yarn… i’ve been successful in keeping up with tour de fleece, although i’m probably going to take tomorrow off, then spin on monday which is supposed to be a day of rest, because of my schedule.  yay yarn!