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amberfocus) wrote2010-08-03 11:57 pm
amberfocus) wrote2010-08-03 11:57 pm
Snippet of Our Vacation
Grand Coulee Dam was awesome. Awesome, awesome, awesome, AWESOME! You know, in the true sense of the word and not the overused valley girl speak. It inspires AWE. Oh, my gosh, they aren't kidding when they say it's the biggest dam in North America. It's amazing. 12 million cubic yards of concrete. The vertigo from looking straight down over the spillway though is...yikes. I'll have pictures later when we get home. It's been an amazing trip so far. We're having a great family vacation and every time we come across windmills we all tilt sideways and go "Tilt," very loudly. Considering the number of windmill farms in Eastern Washington this is rather too often to seem like it should be as funny as it actually is. There is a great level of maturity in the car. We drove through a place yesterday in the Cacades called Loup Loup and every once in a while one of us will just say "Loup Loup," in a high pitched voice and it'll make a round through the car and we will all laugh like crazy. It should not be this funny. We are making memories for our kids. They will remember tilting at windmills and Loup Loup long after Chris and I are gone, I think.
Dry Falls is three and a half miles long. I may have underestimated it's impressiveness just a little bit when I refered to it as a big cliff face before we left on vacation. I've got so many photos. Again with major vertigo looking down, though.
We're at the Dalles in Oregon right now in a hotel overlooking the Dalles Dam, which is also fairly impressive, just on a smaller scale. It's all lit up at night and the view from our balcony is amazing. I guess there are something like 28 dams on the Columbia River. So far we've seen five, I think.
*yawns* Off to Mary Hill tomorrow to see the Stonehenge replica. Apparently it's a full scale replica of what Stongehenge originally looked like and not what it looks like now. Which is pretty amazing according to the post card I saw at one of the gift shops we stopped at. *yawns again* Night.
Dry Falls is three and a half miles long. I may have underestimated it's impressiveness just a little bit when I refered to it as a big cliff face before we left on vacation. I've got so many photos. Again with major vertigo looking down, though.
We're at the Dalles in Oregon right now in a hotel overlooking the Dalles Dam, which is also fairly impressive, just on a smaller scale. It's all lit up at night and the view from our balcony is amazing. I guess there are something like 28 dams on the Columbia River. So far we've seen five, I think.
*yawns* Off to Mary Hill tomorrow to see the Stonehenge replica. Apparently it's a full scale replica of what Stongehenge originally looked like and not what it looks like now. Which is pretty amazing according to the post card I saw at one of the gift shops we stopped at. *yawns again* Night.