Sun River Vacation

We had an amazing time at Sun River last week with Justin's family. Sun River is in central Oregon along a rift zone. There were several cinder cone volcanoes in sight which I loved - of course! It is beautiful country, but it took 6 hours to get there so...not sure if I'll ever go back ;)

No I didn't take this picture but it gives you an idea what it looked like

Wednesday Justin and I arrived before the rest of the family to get dinner ready. Jon booked a guest house for us to stay at and it was amazing! It was one block from the river and just a few miles from the resort. Anyway, we agreed that each family would take a turn making dinner for everyone, so Jon had the idea to turn it into a competition where we would score each other based on how good the food and service was. It made us all step up so we had amazing food every night! We served the family homemade Cafe Rio and made a sign that said "Cafe Rosa" ;) We were very happy to be first and get it over with! 

We had shirts made and split the family into teams for different games we did. Team names were based on inside jokes of the family which made it extra fun!

Thursday morning we made breakfast casserole for everyone. After that we played our first game as teams. I did a scavenger hunt and each team had to put together a puzzle. This family is competitive! It was fun to watch everyone get into it. We went to the resort and rented bikes to do a 16 miles bike ride to a water fall. That was the highlight of the day! We got home and rested our sore muscles in the hot tub, and Jon and Laura were on for dinner. They made pulled pork sandwiches and had cheese cake for dessert: yum! We also had a ping pong tournament that night.

Deciphering clues for the scavenger hunt

Putting the puzzle together

Ready to ride! These bikes were the right choice!

The "waterfall" AKA a slight downgrade of white water rapids...lol

Silly face!

I sure love this guy!

Ice cream!!

Clara loves her uncle Justin/Us-Jah!

My handsome man :)

Enjoying family games

Yummy dessert!

Ping pong battle! I didn't stand a chance...

Friday we had waffles for breakfast and took the canoes out. Justin, James, Bonnie, and I went out first...we were able to canoe upstream so we didn't have to walk the canoe back which was quite the adventure! Then Papa Jon, Joe, and Jon went to give it a try. Joe lacked proper balance causing everyone to tip into the river: hilarious! I was so upset we didn't have a camera! Needless to say, he wasn't allowed back in the canoe ;) That afternoon we swam at the pool. Papa Jon, Judy, and Joe had dinner that night. They did gourmet hot dogs and had pineapple upside-down cake for dessert. Joe had hot dog trivia prepared for us while Papa Jon took our orders, so that added a fun factor.

I got a huge spider bite and this picture doesn't do it justice! There was major swelling...sad day!

More Rose family games

Saturday I was determined to float the river one way or another, it just took us forever to figure it out. We went to the resort to look at a few things and see what renting a tube would be like. We didn't want to pay a lot of money, so we drove up to Bend and bought some tubes, blew them up ourselves, and did a short float. The river water never gets above 60 degrees...brrr!!! But we enjoyed it anyway. James and Bonnie made enchiladas for dinner with tres leches cake: yum! We did our talent show that night which was so fun to watch! James rapped along with Vanilla Ice, Bonnie played her "happy song" (as Jon puts it) and sang to us, Jon gave us a history lesson, Laura recited everyone's birthdays (including the year!), Papa Jon, Judy, and Joe told jokes, and Justin and I danced. From there we played Calvin Ball (a Rose family creation) and baseball, then spent the rest of the night visiting.

Shaved his beard! Haha...baby face...;)

Ready to roll!

Papa Jon is ready to kill!

Because of copyright issues, the audio was muted when I uploaded this to youtube! So lame...I'll see what I can do and maybe post it with music so you get the full effect.

Sunday we cleaned the house up and were on our way around 10:00. On the way home we stopped by to see Chase and Rachel in Hillsboro. We had terrible traffic getting home and didn't pull into Puyallup until 6:00. Overall it was an amazing week! We had so much fun.

I wish I could tell you we were moved into our house. The original closing date was June 11th, but it's taking much longer. We hope to sign either today or tomorrow...we are at the mercy of escrow! Pray that the paper work all comes through and hopefully we'll be moving this weekend.