Back in Oregon

Almost Home: After our storybook trip to see Big Brown and the Belmont Stakes Race, followed by a few relaxing days on Cape Cod, Wednesday June 11th we flew from Providence, RI. into PDX and drove to Salem to spend the night at Eric and Tiffiny's (my youngest son). Thursday morning we brought the grand kids, Taylor and Tage back to Bend. Well it was a leisurely drive with lots of stops along the way. We started out with breakfast at where else ???? Mcky D's... (Mimi strategically chose one that she knew didn't have a Play Area so we didn't have to say "no") Smiling for the self timer on Mimi's camera sitting on the next table

As we were driving up Highway 22, coming up towards Detroit Lake, we could see a lot of water being released from the Big Cliff Dam and Taylor wanted to see the water coming out of the dam... so since we had plenty of time and I went ahead and drove down there to get a good look at it.

Big Cliff Dam below Detroit Lake

Then as we got to the main Dam, Taylor said let's go look at this one too Mimi... so we pulled down there... to see what we could see ;-)

For those of you who have ever wondered what it looks like from the bottom of Detroit Dam. Here's the picture I got before we got shooed out of the very restricted area that we weren't allowed to be in. (but the gate was open, and there was no one there to stop us :-) Detroit Dam on the North Santiam River

My picture doesn't due the height and size of this 463' structure justice. I found the one below on the internet.