Road Trip

Spring break is finally here. Oh and how grateful I was for it to come-Family Time. We headed up to Portland for Spring Break but decided to just take it nice and slow. We usually just drive straight up and straight back never stopping and check out the sites.

We left our house at nine in the morning. Headed up 97 and then to 58. We heard that there is this really beautiful waterfall on 58, so we stop to take a look. You couldn't get past the parking lot it was snowed in. We will just have to check it out another time.
We stopped in Oakridge (which is the halfway point to Portland) at this cute little park and had lunch. Let the kids play and checked out the river that runs past the park. Read the history about the area there was a wagon train that thought they would take a shortcut , but turned out that it was even harder then the way they were going and the rescue party was from Oakridge area. And there also was this cool totem pole (picture moment).

When you are almost off of 58 you pass this cover bridge, and every time I have wanted to stop and look. Finally I got the chance. It was really cool to read the history of cover bridges, which they have as you walk up to the bridge. The bridge is not in use for cars anymore but you can walk on it and see display about cover bridges and how there made back in the day.

This is inside the bridge, I was amazed by all the wood that was used and how stable it must be. That is Kelsie hanging on the side, checking out the water that you can see below.

After stopping at the bridge we decided to take the back roads to Corvallis just for something different. It was so pretty driving through there. So green and with many flowers in bloom. We stopped in Corvallis, well we didn't get out there. We just drove around looking at all the places. We drove past the hospital where Kyle is going to be next year. Drove past the school that I would like the kids to go to, that is if we can find a house in that area. Drove past the church buildings and just checked out the town- it looks like a cute place.
We then drove over to Albany and had to check out the Target- and see how close we were going to be to one. :0) Not to bad only about 15 minutes away and I hear there is Costco close to Target but we didn't go find it.
Then back onto I-5. Just before you head into Salem you past this on the side of the road. It has been a land mark that we look for every time we go up or back. Jaron is really into Transformers so he gets a kick out of it to see it.

Finally we made our way to Portland and into my parents house about 6 pm. It was a nice drive up and it didn't seem like we were in the car for nine hours. It also helped that I had a really good book that I couldn't put down, The Hunger Games. And the kids did really good too.