Weekend Escape 7/18-20

We had a really fun weekend. Very relaxing. K spent the weekend with Grandma, A went to NYC (with help from N getting her there). We escaped! I took Friday off and we left for Portland to see Toby Keith at the Clark County Amphitheatre. The show opened with a couple of groups TK promotes, Trailer Choir and Taylor's Chord. Next Montgomery Gentry, another from my list of must sees, and they were great. TK put on a great concert as usual. He seemed to be in a partying mood and was pretty rowdy that night! We stayed over in Vancouver and decided to drive the WA side of the Gorge. We had seen the WA side from OR but never the OR side from WA. It is beautiful. We spent some time at the Bonneville Dam, WA side, and a museum. It was the weekend for the Gorge Games so there was a lot of activity on the river. We enjoyed watching the wind and kite surfers. We stopped for awhile in Stevenson and watched the outrigger canoe races. We crossed over into OR at Hood River and drove to The Dalles on the OR side. We took an old windy highway that includes the P------- Loops. There is so much beauty in Oregon. We had dinner in The Dalles and then drove to Madras to spent the night. We went to the casino in Warm Springs and left them a small portion of our budget! Sunday Steve decided to take a new route home. We went through Metolius and he thought he saw a highway on the map. We went by Lake Billy Chinook, this is amazing. I did not know we had this in Oregon. We would like to pull the trailer there for at least a weekend. We then continued on the "highway" towards home. This turned out to be 25 miles of gravel road! We finally hit the main highway, my car survived, and we had a nice trip home.