Today we left Bend and went to Burns, OR. Not a long drive, just a couple of hours drive. We tend to make those short drives take a lot longer. Tyler knew we were driving by one of the largest obsidian fields around the Western United States, so we stopped. We did not drive too far up the dirt road near Glass Butte, but we drove far enough to know our car has little to no clearance. No problems, Tyler was very careful. Anyway, we drove up the road and he got out of the car a couple of times and wondered around near the road picking up samples. Most of his obsidian rocks came from in the road. It was all over the place. To the extent Tyler was worried about having a sharp one cut the tire, so after the third stop, we turned around. He collected enough samples to know that he wants to plan a trip with him and several others to take our truck up and do some serious collecting. I guess there are a lot of different shades and colors that come out of that area, even gold colored obsidian.
After the rock collecting, we headed into Burns, had lunch at McDonalds and then did some window shopping until we could check into the hotel. Once we were able to check in, we did so and then the kids went swimming.
Next we did what Tyler said has been his favorite activity while on our long trip. Any guesses before you read on? ........
It was playing games as a family. We played Apples to Apples for four or five hours. Tyler also said, it is interesting that we have to remember how much we enjoy each others company and playing games with each other by going out of town on a long trip where we run out of other things to do. ;-) Then he said, I guess it would be easier if we actually had time while we were home to do this. Good point!!!
Well, that is it, that is all we did today. Not a lot, but relaxing.
Tomorrow we will be at a secret place, an undisclosed location!!! It will be exciting!!!
By the way, Tyler is working on setting up a slideshow for displaying all of our pictures, it might work already as it is at the bottom of the page on this blog, but our connctions are too slow so we don't see it. If you do, let us know it works. He is done messing with trying to get them all on these post entries over slow internet connections. The slideshow can be done with a whole folder of pictures so hopefully it is easier and we can get them on or they are already on. Talk to you tomorrow!
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2 comments:
Sorry, no visible slideshow yet. But it does sound like a relaxing day. I've found the same results when it came to vacations and family games. It's so ironic. And I know the obsidion trip would probably be something my Dad would be into. Whenever it gets scheduled, let me know. I would like to go, if just for the ride.
We will do. I think the slide show is now working. If you want to see larger pictures, you can click on them in the slide show.
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