John Day Fossils
Tuesday, September 5, 2017, 06:00 PM
We had a breakfast of peaches and muffins then drove out to the John Day area of the Painted Hills where we first stopped and had a nice picnic lunch. i like the ham on flatbread with horseradish which was yummy. We also had grapes and Mandarin Oranges. We did a nice walk through the varied colors of the hills and admired the beauty that nature has provided. We walked through two different sets of the painted mounds then went to another painted mound area which contained fossils. We found a few fossils of leaves on the rocks before very tiredly and hot getting back into the car. We stopped at the little town of Prineville where we stopped for a self serve yogurt. I mixed milk chocolate and orange yogurt then topped it with honey roastd peanuts. This is a nice yogurt place. We sat on the sofa in the place and had our yogurt. On the way back in Bend Barb and Jack showed us their Senior Center where they play bridge then we went to the Sagebruush Art Society building which is a coop of sorts where membership pays for the facility. At 6 PM we went out to dinner to Pastini, an Italian restaurant on the Deschuttes River. We had a beautiful table on the croner surrounded by flowers and a view up and down the river. I also enjoyed the walkers going by in their summer clothes, to quote a Bruce Springstein Song. For dinner I had the Canneloni Fruiti Di Mare which was 2 Canneloni in tomato sauce stuffed with shrimps, scallops and fish. It was yummy. We had a bottle of 2015 Sharecropper Pinot Noir which was quite good. When we got back from dinner we spent some time looking at the pictures from yesterday which was the Lava Flow and the Obsidian glass flow. I also did some online research and canceled our second night at Crter Lake. in it's place I added a night in the coastal town of Florence. I found a river view room at the River View inn. I had to pay for the deluxe spa room because it was the only river view room left which costed us $50 more. We shaall see.
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