Our final day of vacation started with another enormous breakfast from Chef Jerry (almond belgian waffles, Canadian bacon, scrambled eggs with swiss cheese, and fresh fruit) and a walk on the bed and breakfast’s grounds to take in the amazing views. The B&B is home to a flock of sheep and chickens, as well as…
a mini-vacation (day 2).
The great thing about staying at a B&B is the real breakfast. Jerry, our breakfast chef extraordinaire, whipped up an enormous meal of chicken apple sausage, croissant french toast, scrambled eggs, fresh fruit, orange juice, and coffee. And since we were the only guests, Jerry served as our breakfast entertainment as well. A few fun…
a mini-vacation (day 1).
I have my husband back! School is out for a whole month, so Eric and I are taking advantage of all this marvelous free time with a few little excursions. We all know that we do most of our vacationing with Groupons (or Living Social, in this case) to do lots of fun things on…
touring oregon with the family (day 3).
Sunday was our last day of fun with the Ringers before they headed back to California. We started the day with a breakfast that is undeniably Oregonian- VooDoo Doughnuts. There’s absolutely nothing healthy about this place, but the crazy sugar combinations are really fun (and tasty!). I’m partial to the chocolate cake donut with chocolate…
touring oregon with the family (day 2).
We started our Saturday with breakfast at the Humble Bagel, which is quickly becoming my favorite breakfast place in Eugene, mostly due to the enormous quantities of marionberry cream cheese they generously slather on my whole wheat cinnamon raisin honey bagel. Oh, so good. I’m drooling a little bit. After carbo-loading, we headed west to…
a quick trip home.
I suppose the title of this post is a bit misleading. There is no quick trip from Oregon to Kentucky. Between the flight time, the layovers, and the time difference, traveling across the country is a full day affair. But it’s so worth it. I went home this weekend for my dear friend Kayla’s wedding….
wine country.
Saturdays are “Ally days” around here. This means that Eric abandons his homework for 24 hours and we get a full day of dating. On this particular Saturday, we headed to wine country. There are a ton of wineries only 20 minutes from our apartment, so we just picked one that we had heard of…
waterfalls and ocean waves.
In our attempt to fit in everything awesome while the weather is nice, we checked two things off our “Oregon to-do” list on Saturday. A hiking trip to Kentucky Falls and a visit to the Oregon coastline. We were also celebrating our 6-year dating anniversary, which seemed to require an adventure of this magnitude. We…
hike to the blue pool.
We had a very “Oregon” Saturday. We started our morning at the Saturday Market. I had heard mixed reviews about this market, some of which warned us that it might make us want to move back to Kentucky. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, the market wasn’t weird. It was mostly…
the oregon trail: day 7 (nampa, idaho to eugene, oregon)
The playlist for today’s drive: -We put the iPod on shuffle and enjoyed hits from the Backstreet Boys, Nsync, John Mayer, Sheryl Crow, and Hanson, among others. Clearly, I have wonderful, mature taste in music. Today marked the last leg of our journey across the country. To start the day, our host family in…
the oregon trail: day 6 (park city, utah to nampa, idaho)
The playlist for today’s drive: -”Born and Raised” -John Mayer It has been kind of crazy to wake up every morning on this trip because we’re constantly surrounded by awesome things that we’ve never seen before. This morning was no different, as for the first time, we watched the sunrise over the Rocky Mountains in…
the oregon trail: day 5 (jackson hole, wyoming to park city, utah)
We packed up our tent this morning and left the Grand Tetons as tiny specks in our rearview mirror. Luckily, we had many more miles of forests and mountains before we entered the way less exciting valleys of hay fields and dirt. In case you ever plan to make the drive from Jackson to Park…
the oregon trail: day 4 (hiking in the grand tetons)
There are two things that you need to take away from this post: 1. We saw a live moose in the wild. 2. We hiked 10 miles in the Grand Tetons. If either of those interest you, keep reading. Let’s start with a recap of the night before. We camped at Gros Ventre Campground, where…
the oregon trail: day 3 (fort collins, colorado to jackson hole, wyoming)
The playlist for today’s drive: -The rest of “Bossypants,” read by Tina Fey (thank you Tina, for getting us through Wyoming). We started the day off in Fort Collins with an early morning walk along the path in the neighborhood where we stayed. The trail went behind a lot of houses and eventually into a…
the oregon trail: day 2 (kansas city, missouri to fort collins, colorado)
The playlist for today’s drive: -“Born and Raised”- John Mayer -“Bossypants” (the audiobook)- read by Tina Fey We covered a lot of ground today. Six states: Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado. Wow. In the Smith family, we have a little friendly competition to see who can visit the most states. We call it…
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