Mommathon

We got to SunRiver in the late afternoon, so we took advantage of the extensive bike trails and headed out to explore.

We started out our first full day at SunRiver kayaking six miles down the Deschutes River. We started early in the morning…it was so peaceful and beautiful. Sean and Colm took one kayak and Liam and I were in another. We saw some wildlife along the way, but mostly a female duck that kept following me and Liam. She would fly in super close to our kayak and then paddle along for a while. Just when I thought she was done and we couldn’t see her anymore, she would fly in again. This happened at least three different times. I finally figured out that I think she was trying to get us to feed here.

We don’t have a lot of pictures of kayaking since we were busy, well, kayaking.

Next we went to the Newbery National Volcanic Monument which is basically a spot where a volcano erupted about 7,000 years ago and they made a little trail through it so you could see the devastation. We also watched a video about all of the volcanoes along the Cascade Range that basically said that when Mt. Rainier and Mt. Hood blow, we are all totally screwed, not because of the ash but because they have glaciers on top of them and all of that ice would melt in an instant and flood everything down below in a hurry. Mudslides galore. Oy.

And because we hadn’t already done enough that day, we went to the pool when we got back to the lodge. A little unexpected treat that was next to the pool was a slide.

This little rope and log combination kept the boys busy for FOREVER. It was hilarious. Liam said he felt like he was on a game show. After doing this and going down the waterslides several times it was time to go back and call it a day.

Let’s just say that everyone slept VERY well that night.