I've lived in Oregon for 12 years now and a few weeks ago made my first trip to Sunriver. We went for Labor Day weekend and shared a house with the Helbling family. The weather was cool so we didn't make it to the awesome aquatic center that they have there, but we managed to do a lot of other really neat things.
The Helbling's arrived a day before us and we made it there on Friday evening (it's about a 4 hour drive). So that night we just ate, hung out and went to bed. I wish we would have taken a picture of Nick, Alia & Max in the "kids" room with two bunk beds. They had a lot of fun, but did eventually fall asleep.
On Saturday we all went to The High Desert Museum. It was so much more than we were expecting. There were animals to see, exhibits, places to crawl and climb and a pioneer village.
Our little spiders climbing all over the web.
Helping saw. I was impressed that both Alia and Nick gave it a try.
Making sailboats
testing them in the water
This was probably their favorite part of the day. The three big kids worked together on this for quite a while. Several other people stopped to watch them. It was pretty impressive. They only stopped because they ran out of materials.
On Sunday, we bundled up and went exploring down into the Lava Tubes. It was very cool and very dark (you have to carry lamps, flashlights or lanterns) but really neat. Alex stayed back with Simone but the three big kids did a really great job!
Later that day we went into the Village and took a train ride, played in a bouncy house and picked out some treats at Goody's. It was a great little family vacation and we are all looking forward to going back again sometime.
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