Winter Vacation ~ Sunriver

You may or may not know that we Foleys took a winter vacation to central Oregon. We drove down to the Bend area on Wednesday and just returned today. Because it was off season and because we were able to come during the wee and because it was a holiday weekend, we got a sweet deal on a house in the resort town of Sunriver. 

On our way there we were treated to beautiful, partial views of a ring around the sun.

And beautiful views of Mt. Hood - it just never gets old.

Both girls loved that we had a fireplace and apparently their animals enjoyed it too!

One of our reasons for going to central Oregon was to enjoy some winter sports. We were sad to discover that Sunriver is having a very  mild winter (like so many other parts of the country) and there was no snow at our location of 4500 feet. We did drive up into the mountains a bit and found enough snow to sled and ski on .

I also found this creek with some cool ice formations.

Syd got this cool hammock for her birthday so Kevin set it up while we stopped for a picnic lunch.

On our drive back to Sunriver we took a scenic route ~ as you can see, it was quite scenic!

When we returned to Sunriver, we decided to check out the village. There are quite a few shops and restaurants. There is even a public ice rink (although it was a bit pricey!) One of our favorite shops was a rock and gem store. Sydney was very excited to spend her birthday money there. She picked out a thunder egg and had them cut it open for her ~ it was full of beautiful crystals. 


It was so quiet in the village during the week. We felt like we had the whole place to ourselves!


Here the girls are playing on the sun in the center of the village.

I'll post more later....