Between running errands this morning, we made a stop at a playground. I also got a photo of the Oregon’s beautiful evergreens.
Playground
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Chinese Lunching
Another great meal at our Chinese restaurant. This time I tried something new – shrimp curry.
Daytripper: Covered Bridges
I’ve been hearing about Oregon’s covered bridges for a while now, so this weekend we did something about it. I loaded up my garmin mapper, plotted a route and off we went.
Here is the order of our bridge visits…
- Gilkey (1939)
- Hoffman (1936)
- Larwood (1930)
- Shimanek (1966)
- Hannah (1936)
Actually our first stop was in Salem to get some frozen yogurt to make sure we were properly sugared up. I should mention Jasmine did not want to go on this boring roadtrip – she came around though and got into the spirit of exploration.
This was our first trip relying solely on the garmin navigater – no google map printouts or fold-out maps. It did quite well, with only a couple hiccups. The biggest being almost getting stuck in an infinite loop. After the second time around the same loop we took the opposite turn, and then the garmin got back to working.
I think my favorite bridge was Hoffman. Ideally located spanning a beautiful gorge and verdant vegetation. My second favorite was Larwood, but not for the bridge itself, but for its wonderful adjacent park and the babbling brook.
I was surprised that most of the bridges were painted white. I was expecting a variety of colors – yellow, baby blue…
We topped off our daytrip with a lunch of salad and pizza.
BBQ
We went to a neighborhood bbq at Kristen and Mac’s place. The weather was absolutely perfect. And the food was good too – lots of garden fresh salads, chips, guacamole, salsa, veggie kabobs, sliders, sweet potatoe fries…
Hallway Fort
Jasmine decided to build a fort in our upstairs hallway. She was expecting this to be a permanent structure. I said us clumsy adults would not be able to navigate and also would stomp on her toys, so it would have to be removed. I suggested we take some photos to document her creation. She really liked this idea, and then spent an hour getting it ‘photo’ worthy.
