Buddy's Diner

We had been deliberating all week where we would go for our Sunday lunch this week. We wanted to go somewhere different to back home, somewhere typically American if possible. In the end, we stumbled across Buddy’s Diner, a 50’s styled diner serving your typical burgers, breakfasts, omelettes and steaks. We went for lunch after we had done our long runs/cycles in the morning and had to fight past all the other guests to find ourselves a table (it was a bit of a free-for-all). We both ordered milkshakes and burgers - what else!. Both of the burgers were a little disappointing, but the milkshakes were awesome, definitely some of the best we have had. I went for a standard chocolate option while Andrea went all adventurous (not like her at all) and went for peanut butter! Both were amazing and despite the awful sounding combination, Andrea’s was definitely the better of the two. We needn’t have bothered ordering food as the milkshakes were huge. In the end neither of us finished our meals but we both made a point of finishing the milkshakes. See we are proper athletes!!


Andrea posing with both our milkshakes - she wasn't being greedy - promise!!

We then headed straight to the Cascadia state park around 50miles away from Eugene. There are so many beautiful parks around Oregon, we are trying to see as many as possible. Cascadia was by no means an exception to that rule. The park was really quiet as we only saw two other people on our walk. We followed the trail which took us up to the Soda (Water) Falls. It was a fantastic forest with lots of rock outcrops and fallen trees. It would have been great for bouldering or if I was a bit younger - hide and seek.


Andrea enjoying the forest


Me looking for inspiration from above

In the evening we watched American Wedding (American Pie 3), both of us were bored after about 30minutes of the brain dead humour. It was then that I decided that it was about time Andrea watched all of the (nearly) 200 episodes of South Park starting tonight. We managed one episode before falling asleep. Maybe we will get through two tomorrow…