Finishing up the month at The Cove

We took a day trip to  Sisters Oregon last week on one of our days off. It's a small town between Bend and Eugene and is best known for their annual quilt fair as well as a large blue grass music festival which was taking place the weekend after we were there.   We spent the afternoon walking  Main Street, browsing the shops and having lunch.  The weather was perfect and there wasn't a lot of tourists.  It's a really cute town, and we did a little shopping and bought a new yard spinner; it's a parrot riding a bicycle.  I also got a wood sign that says "Whatever happens at Grandma's never happened".  I put it up over the window in the bedroom.

When we lived in Sacramento we used to go to a restaurant we called Ben's...a little hole in the wall Chinese restaurant that had the old style chow mien with the crispy noodles and lots of crunchy bean sprouts and celery.  They closed about 10 years ago and we have never found that style chow mien again.  Since we have been in Oregon we have gone to two different restaurants and had the very same chow mien....absolutely delicious.  We went again last night to a little restaurant called Ding Ho...in an old car hop style building...and filled up on pork fried rice and chow mien again.
Maybe it's an Oregon thing; whatever, it's been fun to have an old favorite again after so many years.

We are going to miss the no sales tax shopping when we go back to California;  so nice to not have to add almost 10% to everything you buy.   John has been wanting a navigation system for the truck and so we took the opportunity to get it without sales tax while we are here.  He ordered it from Amazon and so they don't charge sales tax when they deliver it here.  He found a local shop to install if for $40...what a good deal.  Now he has hands free bluetooth for the iPhone as well as a navigation system; it was a plug and play system and the installation looks like it came from the factory.

The park is almost empty now.  We have two or three RVs come in every afternoon and then they leave in the morning and the only people here are the other campground hosts.  There are lots of deer who come down to graze on the grass now that there's not many people here, and I'll see 5 or 6 at a time.  They aren't afraid of people and even the dogs barking at them doesn't send them off.

We will be packing up next Tues and leaving for Grants Pass a week from today.  We'll be spending the night at Valley of the Rogue State Park...using our host pass for a free night....and then going to Brookings on the coast for a week.