Vacation:: Day 4

For our fourth day of vacation we asked our friends Melissa and Ryan if they wanted to go on a hike with us. I warned them that I am a big wuss and hiking usually causes me to not be able to breathe so well and I have to go slow and stop a lot an am generally a pain in the butt. But they still agreed to go with us and so we headed out on Thursday at about 10:30. We went straight to Vista House and enjoyed a beautiful sunny day with almost no wind at all! It was really a perfect day other than a little bit of fog in the distance.

Then we went up to the falls and were amazed to find a parking spot. We were flabbergasted at how many people were there on a weekday lunchtime. It was pretty crowded at the base of the falls.

After much wheezing and finally agreeing that we should let me set the pace, I lead the group to the top. Everyone was happy to make it, but especially me!

Steven took this photo of me on my new iPhone. I'm so happy here! It is the second time that I've hiked to the top. It is still a most spectacular view. I love this rock- last time Steven and I had our picnic here when we got to the top. This time all I had was water and goldfish snacks, but they were still awesome.

Here is Steven taking a break from snapping gorgeous photos and having a snack.

Afterwards, we stopped at The Viewpoint Inn on our way back into town. Melissa wanted to see the Twilight place where they filmed. It is so lovely there. The sun was shining and it was just beautiful. After we got some pictures we decided to go to Bella Cupcake in Gresham, which has Red Velvet cupcakes on Thursdays. On the way we were headed down Stark Street and I looked up from my iPhone to see a kid. All of a sudden he throws down his bike, rips off his shirt and by now the car has passed him, so I turn around and he pulls back his arm and lets a punch land on the boy who has been throwing rocks at his back. It was the most amazing slow motion punch I have ever seen. He just pulled it back and let it fly. The other kid (on the receiving end) literally fell backwards into another buddy. It was most epic.

At which point Ryan says "Welcome to Gresham".

It was all very funny, we were in histerics in the car.

After cupcakes we headed over to Foster Burger where we were going to eat an early supper, but they didn't open until 5. We had an hour and a half to kill and so we went to HUB/Hopworks and had beer samplers and an amazing pretzel appetizer with stout mustard. Amazing.

After beers we finally did get to Foster Burger and here are the guys enjoying the Foster Road Pile Up. It was an awesome burger place and I highly recomend it. They have the place plastered with vintage and new concert posters. It was really pretty cool.After this it was all we could do to get ourselves back home. It would be really hard to top such a great day with anything, so Friday we spent relaxing and getting ready for the weekend.

A big thanks to Mel and Ryan for spending pretty much an entire day with us! We had so much fun, we have to do it again sometime soon. I feel ready to try another hike, though maybe not the one that Ryan has in mind... sorry Ryan!