Vacation Day 3

I have never sweat like I sweat today. Now, I'm sitting on a massive bed in a suite in the Woodsman, sipping a Kokanee, listening to pounding thunder and rain. It's already knocked the satellite once ... hopefully we'll have TV for the rest of the night though, since we're kicking back into chill mode!

We started this morning by sleeping in at the Baker City hotel, grabbing a leisurely breakfast, gassing up, and shipping out. We drove West across Oregon, stopping at the John Day Fossil Beds National Memorial (which, incidentally, has nothing to do with John Day - the area was named for him because it was in this region that he was robbed by Natives and left for dead ... a massive Fu&&-Up for which he will now forever be immortalized ... poor sucker), this area looks remarkably like Drumheller, seems that the fossils displayed here weren't as old as the ones that Drumheller is famous for.

After, we stopped for ice-cream in Mitchell (at the Needful things shop below), and we tried to check out the Newberry National Volcanic Monument, but our timing was off, so we'll try and hit it tomorrow. Keep in mind, that as we cover all of this rugged Oregon terrain, we're driving in temps that have reached 37 degrees Celsius, with NO A/C! My hair has a sexy windswept look to it permanently ... I suppose there are worse things to endure.

We ended up between some taxidermy and a gun store, in Crescent. The motel that we stayed at, the Woodsman, was awesome. Very clean, very orderly, and we obtained a suite for a super reasonable deal - jacuzzi and everything.

For dinner, we went to the Mohawk ... a restaraunt with a taxidermy and bottle collection. This experience was out of this world. The food was decent, but the ambience could never be duplicated. We ate among bears, fawns, pheasants, a two-headed cow, and multiple stuffed animals. It was an experience to be sure. Luckily, they don't perform the taxidermy on site ... then we definitely wouldn't have ordered the special!

We were greeted by another couple from Alberta (I think they'd seen our license plates) who were up to see crater lake (our plans for tomorrow) because the husband had promised the wife that he'd take her before their 50th wedding anniversary which was right around the corner. He loved it when we told him that we were celebrating our first anniversary on Saturday. Too cute!