So, I had the goal of updating the ol’ blog at the end of each day during Becca’s stay in hopes of remembering everything that we did. Obviously, that didn’t happen, but hopefully I’ll be able to keep it all straight. For the second day of Becca’s Oregon adventure trip, we started our morning with…
oregon adventures (day 1).
One of my favorite people has come all the way from Louisiana to visit us! Becca is in town for a week, so we’ll be touring Oregon, hitting up all of our favorite spots (and some new ones) over the next several days. Becca and I met 5 years ago while working as counselors at…
clear lake: the hike that would never end.
On Sunday afternoon (another perfect day of summer weather), we headed east into the Cascades to visit Clear Lake. It’s about an hour and a half away from Eugene, providing plenty of time to listen to the new Relient K album about a dozen times. It’s a fun listen, if you haven’t checked it out…
another sweet cheeks picnic.
The weather was pretty darn awesome over the weekend. I’m thrilled that the incredible Oregon summer we’ve been hearing about has finally arrived! After a satisfying morning at the farmer’s market (yes, we did buy more berries), we took our enormous heirloom tomato, some bakery bread, pesto, and fresh mozzarella for a picnic at Sweet…
hiking at crater lake.
Our last post left off right before we started our day of hiking at Crater Lake National Park. We headed up to the lodge to take a look around, and hopefully warm ourselves up a bit after a very, very cold night camping in below freezing temperatures. You can spend the night in the lodge,…
the night the nutella froze over.
I don’t even know where to begin. We spent the weekend at Crater Lake National Park. If you haven’t been, you need to go. Like, now. First, a few facts for you: Crater Lake is Oregon’s only national park. The lake was created around 7,700 years ago, following 12,000-foot-tall Mt. Mazama’s eruption (and explosion). I…
a day trip to portland.
People around here love Portland. I’ve never had a super awesome Portland experience, as it generally rains the entire time we’re there, but we keep giving it another chance to impress. Most of our Portland trips have brought us downtown, which isn’t exactly the most pleasant part of Portland (although it is home to Powell’s…
hiking horse rock.
Let’s just start by stating the obvious: Oregon is gorgeous. Seriously, it’s a blessing to live in such an amazing place with so many things to do. There are so many beautiful hikes around here that I don’t think we’ll ever conquer them all, but we’re knocking out what we can. In planning last weekend’s…
today was a big day.
First, our nephew was born! We are officially Uncle Eric and Aunt Ally! We can’t wait to meet him in July! Second, our car hit 100,000 miles. This seemed like a much bigger deal before we knew that our nephew would be born today. Still, the ol’ Mazda has done a lot of traveling (including…
a sweet cheeks picnic.
Eugene has made a gallant return to perfect weather. We celebrated a sunny, 75 degree Saturday with a picnic at Sweet Cheeks Winery with the Bloems. It doesn’t get much better than delicious food, crisp wine, and good friends. Of course, following it up with an ice cream stop at Red Wagon Creamery didn’t hurt….
a perfect oregon day.
The weathermen have been bringing me down lately. They’ve been predicting doom and gloom all week long, and they said that this weekend would be cold and rainy. So I was expecting a weekend of watching television and sipping tea. Luckily, the weathermen were totally wrong. Today was awesome. Perfect. Warm. Sunny. Glorious. We took…
hendricks park.
We’ve lived in Eugene for 9 months, and somehow no one ever told us about Hendricks Park. I consider this a travesty, and I hope to remedy this by proclaiming Hendricks Park my favorite place in Eugene. Why is this not the first thing people tell you about when you move here? Let me back…
sahalie falls.
Okay, let’s jump back a few weeks to a time when there was still snow on the ground. It’s hard to imagine a time when it was cold enough to have snow, as I sit here on our balcony in shorts and a tank top. We have had 3 solid weeks of awesome, sunny, 70-degree…
the eugene marathon.
Well, I can officially cross “run a marathon” off the ol’ bucket list. I ran the Eugene marathon yesterday morning. I know. I can’t believe it either. Eugene brought out the best running weather we could have asked for. After a week of beautifully warm, sunny days, I was a little nervous that it would…
geocaching in the sun.
Last weekend was glorious. Like, 75 degrees and sunny, glorious. Wearing shorts and sipping smoothies, glorious. We took advantage of the incredible weather with a little geocaching at a wildlife preserve in Eugene. Eric did all of the research for this particular adventure, stumbling upon this wildlife preserve with 17 caches (starting with this one)….
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