Mr. & Mrs. Stevens: ORCA #2: Oregon!!!

We went to Oregon for the second week of our vacation! It was SO great to see where KR is from and be introduced to his life. Sherwood, Oregon, born and raised. It's a small town that has grown since KR was little but it was still tiny compared to what I am used to. It was neat to see where KR went to high school, and where he spend his time as a curious and crazy little boy. One awesome thing about Oregon is that blackberries grow everywhere! They are literally considered a weed there. So they are growing all along the edge of their property so we went berry picking a few times. I have never tasted berries so sweet and delicious. And they were free! I never want to pay for sour berries for 4 bucks at the store again!

KR's family's home. They have a lot of property and it was just so nice to be out there and there home was beautiful.

Berries to make cobbler. I also made home made jam while I was there. Tons of berries!

In Oregon, you have your gas pumped for you, for free! "What do I say again??" "Fill up, regular."

We went to the science museum! It was so fun!!

This little kid was trash talking and challenged KR to connect four. He had been winning all the other kids but as soon as KR beat him on his first try, the kid lost interest and went to play with something else hahaha.

We went to the Rose Gardens. They were sooo beautiful!! It was just so lovely to walk around and I was obsessed with taking pictures of everything.

Where's KR?

Love this for some reason.

I finally found some flowers that matched me.

We went to the Oregon Zoo! My camera died though so I don't have many good pictures.

Jambo! - Name that movie.

Oregon Coast day! We first stopped at KR's friend's house on the lake. The lake is like 5 minutes from the ocean.

Yay! Back to the ocean!!

We took a little nap on the sand and when we woke up, the water had come up that far right next to us. We were really lucky it wasn't right where we were hahah. We decided to get up and move.

We started driving the coast and saw this awesome look out spot. In the picture of us, the background is all washed out because it was so bright but you can see the view in the few pictures following.

Then we went to the light house! I loved it (minus all the flies. There were literally millions!)

Then we went to this place where there were stores right across the highway from the ocean. As we were walking, we see all these people kinda shrieking and laughing and water bursting into the air.