If you have just joined in you may want to start with the first post in this wedding weekend series, which can be found here. To recap, we arrived in Bend and enjoyed a wonderful pre-wedding family dinner. It’s now Sunday and the kids are awake and ready for the pool. But we need nourishment first and thankfully we have a free continental breakfast waiting for us courtesy of our wonderful hotel. We got downstairs before the rush of the hungry arrived and devoured everything in site. The kids got their fruity colored cereal and I got to make a couple of waffles in the cool waffle maker they had. I’m pretty sure they tasted so good because I poured and cooked them myself. After breakfast the boys were clamouring non-stop to head down to the pool. So we put on the bathing suits and headed down to the pool, which amazingly was devoid of all life. The water was really warm and the boys splashed around and indicated that they were never going to come out. Zachary, my oldest, was still having some fear about swimming and having water go over his head so we managed to coerce him into slipping on a life jacket and trying to float around a bit in the deep end a bit. After a short time he was swimming the length of the pool so we were pretty excited about seeing that. We were finally able to coax the kids out of the pool so we went back to the room and packed everything up to check out and head up to Elk Lake Resort where the wedding was to take place and where we would stay the night in some rustic cabins.
After checking out of the hotel we decided that it would be best to strap on the ol’ feedbag before heading out to the cabins, so we stopped for lunch at a place called Boston’s. It’s a gourmet pizza joint/ sports bar. The kids ordered pizza, the wife ordered an individual spicy chicken pizza and I ordered fish tacos. But before that came we enjoyed a delicious plate of nachos which was the best plate of nachos I have ever had. The jalapenos on the nachos destroyed my stomach later but looking back I still feel it was worth the suffering. Full from the meal we attempted to navigate our way out of Bend and onto the Cascade Lakes Hwy toward Elk Lake. If you have ever been to Bend you are aware that most of the intersections throughout town are actually round-abouts. Being a newb in town I had no idea how to get to the road we needed so I asked the gas station attendant if he knew. He gave me what seemed at the time fairly simple directions of going straight, turning right a Reed Market and going through and endless number of round-abouts until we were supposed to see a sign for Mt. Bachelor. We did everything as instructed except for the turn to Mt. Bachelor which resulted in us taking a 20 minute drive around Mt. Washington Road, which wasn’t too bad as we got to see a lot of Bend we hadn’t seen before. Finally after completing this large loop and ending up right back where we started we saw a sign for Mt. Bachelor and started the 40 minute drive over to Elk lake. If you have ever had the good fortune of driving this road then you are fully aware of how beautiful this drive is. I’ll conclude Part 2 with a few photos of the beauty of this area. Stay tuned for Part 3 of Wedding Weekend.
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