We started our trip by going out to Haines Stake House! It was so good! Thanks to Kristin Bowman for giving us the low-down on where to eat.
This pioneer style stake house was so good. Unfortunately, I don’t think the pioneers had tasty onion rings and absolutely delicious burgers back then. Maybe though. It was so good we actually ate here twice on our trip!
Watch out! Kendra at the helm of the cannon!
Baker City is a super old town that had a lot of beautiful old buildings. We couldn’t help but snap some shots of the kids along the way. My favorite is the one of cute Lisa with baby on the way but Kendra with the rose is a very close second.
The Oregon Trail Interpretive Center was amazing. You can see Trace hangin with the Indians. We got a tour and went on a Nature trail. Kendra & Trace were most impressed with the giant buffalo you see in the last pic. They had a fun kids room with a life size wagon that you can fill with things the pioneers actually took and costumes to dress up in.
Trace learned to hold a rifle at Paizano’s Pizza! He did pretty good. We then checked out this park that was awesome. It had all the old toys that you hardly see any more like the teeter totter, spinny thing that Lisa & the Kids got on, and some sizzling hot long metal slides. lol. We avoided those.
We also went to the public library next door and let the kids play with the puppet show area they had. As we crossed the bridge back over to the park, we saw tons of kids on tubes floating down the river and it looked so fun!
Trace the puppeteer!!
The Train ride up to Sumpter was the highlight of our trip! We rode in a train car that was built in the early 1900s and they staged a train robbery. Trace was cheering for the robbers. The people were so nice and the kids just loved it! It was all of our first times riding on a train so that plus the beautiful scenario around there was awesome!
All of a sudden some bandits on horses came to rob us on the train! Luckily they had terrible aim!
The drive home was excellent (only 2 hours) and we decided to check out the cemetery to see how old some of the Oregon Trailers were. Lisa spotted this creepy headstone. It looks like feet or hands are on it trying to climb out! With that we returned home, but not before passing this GIANT factory thing that was falling over and apart. I ‘m not sure why I thought it was so cool, but it was. Last but not least we got some Ice cream which as you can see made Trace SUPER happy!
It was a great trip!
