Saturday, August 1, 2009

Anniversary Trip to Southern Oregon

Shane and I will celebrate our 10th anniversary this August! To celebrate we left the girls with my mom and headed to Southern Oregon to do the Farm & Wine Tour, attend the Britt Festival in Jacksonville, raft the Rouge River and explore Ashland and nearby towns. We had a great time and we feel very blessed to have had ten wonderful years of marriage. Although we've been married ten years, we've been together almost 17!

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The highlight of our trip was a jet boat tour down the Rouge River. On our 4-hour Champagne Brunch tour we saw two bald eagles, osprey, blue herons, deer and lots of other wildlife. Shane wanted to sit in the very front row and since we had a driver who was intent on getting our boat wet, we got completely soaked. We loved it!

The brand new $2 M OK Coral built exclusively for guests of Hellsgate Jet Boat Tours. Here we enjoyed a delicious champagne brunch.

Our boat took us into the amazing Hellsgate Canyon (where The River Wild with Kevin Bacon and Meryl Streep was filmed)



Another favorite farm and antique shop on the Farm & Wine tour. This farm was recently featured in Country Living magazine.

At the Rouge Valley Creamery - stop one on the Southern Oregon Farm & Wine Tour. At the gourmet chocolate shop next door we tried chocolate covered bacon and it was... good!

Shopping in Jacksonville.
The Britt Festival in Jacksonville. We met up with our friend Jenni (Shane has known her since kindergarten and we had our first date in high school at her house) for a gourmet picnic and concert.



Another stop on the self-guided farm tour. We tried amazing cheese pates here.

The food and atmosphere at this quaint little farm restaurant outside Grants Pass was amazing!

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