Our honeymoon was amazing. If you recall, we went to Sun River Oregon. We did a lot of sight seeing and got a lot of rest. We for sure were not sick while we were there. We may have been coughing, and had runny noses, and sore throats, but we weren't sick. Who is sick on their honeymoon?
Not these kids! That picture was actually the last day. We drove down to Crater Lake. It was pretty amazing.
We lucked out. The early spring weather was a bit chilly and rainy and quite a few of our "maybe we should do this" type things were closed for "winter". How is that lucky? It gave our non-sick selves a great excuse to say in, order pizza, sit by the fire and watch bad TV, which was exactly what we needed, to relax and un-wind.
We didn't spend the whole time in our condo though, we did get out quite a bit and saw some pretty cool things. We spent most of our first day there at the High Desert Museum. It was really cool! We learned a lot about Oregon history and all sorts of native and non-native animals. The coolest part by far though, were the otters. I may have been a little obsessed. I think we stood there and watched them swim laps for about 20 minutes.... And I may have taken about 100 pictures. But I will only show you one.
Ok! I will show you two....
They were SO CUTE! Speaking of really cute things, we also saw this heart shaped puddle. And being the cheese ball that I am, I had to take a picture of our reflection in it....
The next couple days we did quite a bit of hiking. The highlight were Tumalo falls and Smith Rock State Park. We also saw some really cool lava fields but I am not sure if they had a name or not. And now, pretty pictures!
Lava up close and a whole field of it!
Pretty!
Because it was "winter" the road to Tumalo Falls was closed. So we had to hike the 2.5 mile in to see it. On the way we discussed the difference between a Butte and a Butt:
Sorry, sometimes I am a child. And like a child, I was getting tired of hiking about a mile in, "Can we just say these are the falls?"
But, we kept walking and it was SO worth it! 100 feet of falling water. Totally beautiful!
And then we hiked up to the top and looked down:
So powerful! I would highly recommend checking it out if you are ever in central Oregon. However, if you only have time to do ONE thing in central Oregon, I would HIGHLY recommend Smith Rock State Park. I was SO blown away. it was totally breath taking. It made me want to get back into rock climbing and be more in touch with nature and sing like Pocahontas (colors of the wind anyone?). Words do not do it justice, so check these out.
This is where we stopped for lunch (romantic no?):
At the summit
Monkey Face
Needless to say the whole trip was amazing. This (very long) post is just a quick snap shot of our incredible week. I am so glad we took the time to get away right after the wedding! We surely needed it! With the help of the hive and a few friends for Oregon, we managed to find amazing restaurants as well! The whole trip was very "us". It was perfect.
As amazing as it was, I was happy when we got on the plane home.
We had been away for 14 days, the whole week before the wedding and then the honeymoon. While many people are sad when it is all over, and the thought of "real life" is a drag, we both agreed, we were ready. I was ready to be done planning, I was ready to just enjoy day to day life with my husband and I was ready to be home.
How did you feel after your honeymoon? Did you use it as a chance to unwind or go on adventures or both?
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