Weekend excursion: Tillamook

Since I'm feeling prolific tonight, I'm going to post twice. Fred and I both managed to get Friday afternoon off last week, so we got an early start to our weekend. We drove all the way out to Hillsboro to eat a late lunch at an Indian restaurant some of his coworkers had told him about. It was great, but since it was a buffet, I ate way too much and was miserable the rest of the night. We didn't even eat dinner. We did stop by our favorite farm stand to get a watermelon, corn, and half a flat of berries. Between the two of us, all the berries were gone by breakfast today. And I didn't even bake anything with them.

Then on Saturday we got up and made our way out to the coast. On the way, we stopped at the Tillamook Forest Center. We had a lot of fun learning about the forest and taking a short walk along the Wilson River. And we got our pictures taken with Smokey.


Afterward we made our way to Tillamook to visit one of our favorite Oregon places--the Tillamook cheese factory. Maybe I shouldn't speak for Fred, but it's definitely high on my list. Our first stop was to get an ice cream cone (they make more than cheese there). We skipped the tour and the cheese sample line because it was pretty busy, but we did make it to the cheese shop to pick up a couple of bags of cheese curds and a pepperoni stick. We came prepared with a cooler for the cheese, but did make quite a dent in one bag of curds before we made it home.