Friday, September 12, 2008
Got up at a more decent time of 9AM and went on a walk of the Belknap premises. Talk about flowers and gardens! This could qualify as the Butchart Gardens of Oregon. There were several types of gardens including Asian and memorial, but our favorite was the secret garden. There were ten or more water pools and fountains with beautiful aromatic flowers enclosed within a circular wall. We were impressed. We decided to spend the day at the hot springs but camp at a national forest camp ground called Olallie that we heard about from a full timer Sprinter couple in Madras, Or. The camp ground is at the junction of 2 rivers. We will have plenty of water music tonight. At the hot springs we spent the afternoon reading and talking with various couples that showed up. A cleaning lady put up a closed sign on the men’s bathroom and I turned the sing around so that people thought that the pool was closed. We had the entire pool to ourselves for a couple of hours until someone investigated further and entered the pool area when they saw us. Their remark of “Wow, the lower pool is really crowded and this one has only you two” drew a smirk from Harris. When we returned to the campground for dinner we shared our next door neighbor’s campfire for an hour or so and heard about their plans to go deer hunting the next day. On a sadder note, we heard that the Jim (the older of the two hunters) had lost his 40 year old son in a hit and run accident in Renton this past June. It had made the local Seattle news and Jim is still working through that horrible experience (Police are still investigating). Judy made a great chicken stir fry and we are getting ready to see The Great Debaters now before bed.
Got up at a more decent time of 9AM and went on a walk of the Belknap premises. Talk about flowers and gardens! This could qualify as the Butchart Gardens of Oregon. There were several types of gardens including Asian and memorial, but our favorite was the secret garden. There were ten or more water pools and fountains with beautiful aromatic flowers enclosed within a circular wall. We were impressed. We decided to spend the day at the hot springs but camp at a national forest camp ground called Olallie that we heard about from a full timer Sprinter couple in Madras, Or. The camp ground is at the junction of 2 rivers. We will have plenty of water music tonight. At the hot springs we spent the afternoon reading and talking with various couples that showed up. A cleaning lady put up a closed sign on the men’s bathroom and I turned the sing around so that people thought that the pool was closed. We had the entire pool to ourselves for a couple of hours until someone investigated further and entered the pool area when they saw us. Their remark of “Wow, the lower pool is really crowded and this one has only you two” drew a smirk from Harris. When we returned to the campground for dinner we shared our next door neighbor’s campfire for an hour or so and heard about their plans to go deer hunting the next day. On a sadder note, we heard that the Jim (the older of the two hunters) had lost his 40 year old son in a hit and run accident in Renton this past June. It had made the local Seattle news and Jim is still working through that horrible experience (Police are still investigating). Judy made a great chicken stir fry and we are getting ready to see The Great Debaters now before bed.
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